My io.sys and /msdos.sys are empty on my laptop (running XP).
I'm almost positive that those instructions only apply to 95/98/ME.
NT/2k/XP/Vista are fully 32-bit and don't run on top of DOS.
-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Jude DaShiell wrote:
If the windows xp msdos.sys file is about 2k in size then yes you can.
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
Can you do that even with win xp?
I didn't believe that.
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell"
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Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Linux without sighted help
> If it's a dell machine push down and hold the delete key right after
> you
> turn the machine on. You won't get windows coming up but will get into
> cmos. Other things to do. Change msdos.sys file on that box so you
> stop
> off in dos first. There are dos screen readers free for download that
> will work with hardware synthesizers and that way you get more control
> over your equipment. I did this a long time ago, maybe get sighted
> help
> to do this too it's not hard. Run in dos and type cmd attrib +w
> msdos.sys
> and hit return. Then use notepad to edit msdos.sys and change
> BootGui=1
> to BootGui=0 then save the file as a text file and in another dos
> command
> session cmd move c:\msdos.sys.txt c:\msdos.sys and then reboot the
> machine. Dos comes up and everything goes quiet so type win and hit
> enter
> to go into windows until you can get a hardware screen reader and a
> screen
> reader program for it.
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