9fans archive / 1995 / 09 / 62 / prev next From: jmk@pla... jmk@pla... Subject: Win95 and Plan 9 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 09:47:57 -0400 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. ------ original message follows ------ >From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Tue Sep 5 04:07:01 EDT 1995 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <45545>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:55:16 -0400 Received: from symbionics.co.uk ([158.43.6.17]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <45499>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:55:00 -0400 Received: from sympc143 ([194.32.100.46]) by symbionics.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17354; Tue, 5 Sep 95 08:53:45 BST Message-Id: <9509050753.AA17354@sym...> Comments: Authenticated sender is <ngr@mailhost> From: "Nigel Roles" <ngr@sym...> Organization: Symbionics Communications To: 9fans@cse... Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 04:53:44 -0400 Subject: Win95 and Plan 9 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Sender: owner-9fans@cse... Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse... 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!