Re: Reboot win2k into dos on ramdisk?



mike <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Since when do they do this? Last time I used Norton Ghost, it
certainly didn't, and a quick perusal of the recent manual didn't
mention this feature.

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--------- Scott Seligman <scott at <firstname> and michelle dot net> ---------
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give
clearer light as to what is best to be done.
-- Aaron Burr
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