Spaces, In regards to your last question of your first post, yes, after going thru heck trying to get the right syntax for the boot disk to recognize the right path.. another story (even I had probs).. using the autoexec and config.sys files I had posted. I finally was able to install from the multiboot (5in1) disk I had created from start to finish without a hitch.
The image works as you,ve mentioned all you would need to do is modify the autoexec.bat to fit your 9x choice and its setup.exe file (in the autoexec file I posted its using the oemsetup but this should also work for the setup.exe as well)
I borrowed the lines from a winme bootdisk that I think had better code and uses the ramdrive \"%RAMD%\" to store the extra files that are compressed in an \"ebd.cab\" file I thought that would be useful for debugging and such. This would be where you\'d find the files like edit, sys, format, etc etc.
As far as the config.sys file.. the line [Setup_CD] is the menu option that you\'d select if you wanted to install the 9x OS from the CD.. Note:(This could be anything as long as it is reference in the autoexec.bat file).
The line \"include=CD\" references the menu option for CD support [CD]. This was used instead of retyping the same lines that the [CD] menu already had. A shortcut if you will from typers cramps ;-)
What I edited was the include=CD for the [Setup_CD] menu since that wasn\'t there initially and the line in the [CD] section that didn\'t have a \"device=himem.sys\" line that was giving me grief when I tried using the ramdrive statements.
I mod\'d an original 98 bootdisk to get this to work for me.
As far as using the supplied 2 files and creating the image.. sure go ahead.. I hope that it would help anyone trying to do what I just did.. ;-)
As far as using a different filename other than config.sys.. why? That is what helps make this bootdisk work.. Old DOS days always had a autoexec.bat and config.sys file.. Not sure how you would do it any other way.. Unless you wanted to try a customized *.dat file and I\'m not to sure if you would want to go there. ;-)
PS. 1 Also I\'ve found that I could fit all of the files for the 3 W2K versions, the directories win98 and the winme on one disk only if I used a 99min blank (870mb).. total image size for me was 757mb if anyone wanted to know. ;-)
PS 2. If you want to make your 9x install with the auto inserted PIDKEY, all you have to do is create an MSBatch.inf file with the right format and drop it into the UENGLISHWin9x folder. I\'ll post that in abit.
