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I was stuck with MS-DOS 5.0 as a child, and was mildly envious of 6.x's MultiConfig that I read about in magazines; it seemed so much better than using boot flo
by npongratz 3y ago
I was stuck with MS-DOS 5.0 as a child, and was mildly envious of 6.x's MultiConfig that I read about in magazines; it seemed so much better than using boot floppies for nonstandard configurations. So I rigged autoexec.bat to present a menu of various configs and rename the related config.sys files so that the one I chose was used after autoexec.bat ran. Worked quite well; the only minor downside I encountered was having to reboot again when choosing a different config than the one config.sys currently held.
- mike_hock 3y agoI thought config.sys ran before autoexec.bat ...
- jhoechtl 3y agoIt did for sure
- netsharc 3y agoIt seems his/her hack was to select a particular configuration, get autoexec.bat to copy the file with that configuration as the new config.sys, and then reboot the PC so that config.sys would get read at next boot.
- npongratz 3y agoYes, this is exactly how I did it. That's why I mentioned having to reboot again after choosing a different config.