Re: World's stupidest question

[Mike Blatchley <mikeb@maxtor.com>]

On 27 Mar 1996, Raul Miller wrote:
>
> FYI, I use loadlin to bring up linux from an msdos config.sys menu,
> but I don't use any %CONFIG% variable dependencies in autoexec.bat,
> and I've never bothered learning or using loadlin's special
> configuration file format.
> 
> What I do instead is put lines in my config.sys like:
> 
> [1-3-77]
> shell=c:\dos\command.com /p /k c:\linux\boot\strap\linux 1-3-77
> 
> 

I used to do it this way (using shell=c:\linux\loadlin .... ), but that
stopped working when I upgraded to Win'95.  Now, I have to use the
%CONFIG% environment variable in autoexec.bat to conditionally run loadlin
from there. 

Mike Blatchley
mikeb@maxtor.com