Re: Reboot win2k into dos on ramdisk?

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Ken Halter wrote:
"mike" <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:kx4xj.5118$R_5.4458@xxxxxxxxxxx
I have an application that won't run in a dos box under win2k.

What does this app do that's not possible while running Windows? Win2k is/was a great OS.

Is this some kind of "in house" app? You'd be surprised at what you can do in VB/Windows. You're gonna have to spill it here... you have me wondering what can't be done in VB/Windows...

If a console app is your only solution, gotta ask, why VB?

If I can't program it in VB, it ain't gonna get done.

But.... why? <g> There are DOS versions of basic still floating around. There are also many languages that have shareware/freeware/open source compilers that'll probably run from DOS...

This all started when I was trying to do an OS install on a legacy free laptop that wouldn't boot from anything but the internal hard drive.
I could load the drive on a different system, but couldn't, at the time, figger out how to install the os onto the drive it booted from.

So, I'm not interested in how wonderful win2k is or how to run stuff from win2k.

I'm interested in learning how the drive imaging programs reboot
to an OS on a ramdisk. It happens every day, but the process
is either secret or immune to my google search terms.

mike

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