[arachne] Re: ADSL - Broadband connections

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Greg Mayman said:
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> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:51:52 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
>> You will need to boot directly into DOS ... _not_ in a dosbox inside of
>> win98... and _not_ via shutting-down win98 and restarting in msdos mode.
>
>> Hit F8 during boot-up and choose to start with command prompt only.
>> (or edit msdos.sys so that you go directly to the DOS command prompt)
>
>> --- in msdos.sys ---
>
>> BootGUI=0
>
> Excellent advice, and a practice I have followed with every computer I
> have owned with Windows9x installed on it.
>
> But one thing I am wondering... which of the later flavours of Windows
> can you still do that with?
>


I think 98 was the last, maybe ME. But XP and Vista don't have any version
of DOS underneath and I don't think any Command Line Interface is
available with them at all.

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