Well first of all have a good and meaningful Memorial Day.
Second of all, I am attempting to fix a old laptop (toughbook cf 27) that simply will not boot from the CD drive, it will only boot from the floppy drive.
To install some sort of operating system I installed PCDos 7.0 first, then will install Win 95A so I can use the CD drive, then will install anything from Win98 to XP Pro.
But I have to wait for the Win95A to show up in the mail later in the week and I wish to play around in this thing in PCDos, but I'd like to run it from Dosshell but I do not know the command line to run Shell.exe from the C: prompt as I have to modify config.sys to add the command line to boot directly into Shell.
Does anyone happen to know the command line to run Shell from the C: prompt?
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That is correct, I need the command line to insert into the config.sys file along with where to insert it.
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I believe it can be done either way, but I will eventually need the C: prompt to install win95A with C:/A: setup.exe
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Well, this is IBM's PCDos 7.0, it was meant to be a competitor to Win 3.1 and 3.11 and 95a and does have a dosshell routine.
I suspect it will not have Icons, (though Norton Commander and a host of other GUI's were created for it) but it will have a sort of Windows Explorer function listing files and programs. -
Nah did not work from the C: prompt just returned bad command or file name.
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Tried that as well.
A different track perhaps, I have a old DOS gui floppy called "freeby3.zip"
How would I unzip and install that? PC DOS does have a unzipping function -
Scratch the above, I found an ancient LapLink floppy with NC1.exe on it, which is Norton Commander 1.0.
What would the command line be to install?
I've tried simply typing:
A:> NC1.exe
No joy, I think it is merely rewriting NC1.exe back unto the floppy.
Would it be A:>C\NC1.exe? -
Well, that laplink floppy has Norton Commander on it, NC1 exe, however i type NC1 exe and it self extracts..but doesn't write to the C: drive.
What does show up is LAPLINK <DIR> -
i'd copy that nc1.exe file to the c drive with something like "copy nc1.exe c:" or "copy nc1.exe c:\"
after that i'd go to c: and type nc1
after that i'd go to that directory with "cd laplink;" browse for a new exe with "dir /p"
when you are done, setting the path in your config.sys should be the same. it would just be "path c:\laplink" or something like that.padre31 likes this.