Hi Daniel, > On May 17, 2022, at 5:45 AM, Daniel <codehunte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This may be a crazy or even insane thing to ask, nevermind do, but is it > possible to create a new config file and use that. For instance rename > fdconfig.sys to the MSDOS config.sys?
You can use either FDCONFIG.SYS or CONFIG.SYS with FreeDOS. Nothing special is needed. You can just rename FDCONFIG.SYS so the kernel will then look for CONFIG.SYS. However, there is an advantage to using FDCONFIG instead. Older commercial programs that have their own installers and modify the config file, were generally bad at making good changes to the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Often duplicating or creating conflicting settings. Sometimes even reducing things like FILES=80 to FILES=40. This was even an issue sometimes when installing programs created circa MS-DOS 3 onto later versions of MS-DOS like 6.2 or installing into PC-DOS. Also, there are also some differences when it comes to what drivers and their settings get used by FreeDOS. Using FDCONFIG and FDAUTO provides an relatively easy way to use those old installers and not break your system configuration. Then afterwards, you can manually include any needed changes. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
