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From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: Win95 and Plan 9
Date: Tue,  5 Sep 1995 09:47:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950905134757.fYIgju4_CLkmJPD6xw0zffqdT8l73RFL1oxzQohg4g4@z> (raw)

If you look on your new shiny Win95 there's a file 'MSDOS.SYS' which holds
some configuration stuff, one line of which is something like
	BootGUI=1
change the 1 to 0 and you boot up stright into DOS mode. The file has attributes
system+read-only+hidden so you have to turn those off under DOS before you can
change it.


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I am pleased to note that installing Win95 did not overwrite my Plan
9 partition. Evidently it holds Plan 9 in higher regard than Linux.
b.com will also run, but only as a 'real' MSDOS program. 
Unfortunately, since Win95 takes a couple of minutes to boot, this is 
a slow way to get to Plan 9!







             reply	other threads:[~1995-09-05 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-09-05 13:47 jmk [this message]
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1995-09-05  8:53 Nigel

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