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Today, in order to study and make MiniWin95, I installed Win95A in the C drive. By the way, I tried to see if Win95 can run under MS-DOS 7.10. Everyone knows that usually Win95 runs under MS-DOS 7.0 which doesn't support FAT32 but supports large hard disks. So this time I tried to see if it can run under MS-DOS 7.10. The result is that it really works. Under MS-DOS 7.10 (Win98SE), entering WIN of Win95 started to the Win95 desktop without any trouble! Later, when I was going to return to WinME, because the path of winbootdir in MSDOS.SYS was pointed to the path of Win95 (which was corrected later), as a result, after the WinME boot logo appeared on the screen, it directly started to the Win95 desktop! Really~~

But there is one point. Don't expect that after starting Win95 with MS-DOS 7.10, 8.0, Win95 can support FAT32 partitions. In fact, because Win95 itself doesn't support FAT32 partitions, so even if the drive letter already exists, this FAT32 partition still cannot be accessed~~

From this, it can be seen that no matter which high version of MS-DOS, including 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, can directly start the Win9x DOS program. This makes me have a deeper understanding that Win9x is a GUI program under DOS, right??

Can WIN95 run under 8.0?

The following is a quote from yiyesong on 2003-6-27 8:16:22:
Can WIN95 run under 8.0?

Yes!

Under MS-DOS 7.10, various versions of Win3.x, 95, 98 in any mode, as well as "Safe Mode" of Me can be booted.

Under MS-DOS 8.0, any mode of Win95, 98, Me can be run, as well as "Standard Mode" of Win3.x.

But many commands in MSDOS 8.0 are just for show, for example, FORMAT, which simply doesn't work.

Don't use dos8 anymore.

DOS 8.0 is really....

Well, MS-DOS 8.0 is not as easy to use as MS-DOS 7.10~

The following is a quote from Wengier on 2003-6-27 8:12:55:
Because Win95 itself does not support FAT32 partitions, so even if the drive letter already exists, this FAT32 partition still cannot be accessed~~

Why not use WIN97 (that is, WINDOWS 95 OSR2)? It can support FAT32 very well.

Can dos8 not add patch points can start win32?

The following is a quote from savioler on 2003-6-27 13:32:12:
Can DOS8 start Win32 without patching?

How to patch that DOS8 IO.SYS? It's compressed, not easy to patch.

The following is the statement quoted from lydong on 2003-6-27 13:08:27:
Why not use WIN97 (that is, WINDOWS 95 OSR2)? It can well support FAT32.

The moderator can consider this suggestion and give it a try~~~

If it is successful, the WIN97 core can be taken out to make a mini window system! 98 is too large, and after I minimized it to 70M at the minimum, it can no longer stably run other programs~~~

The following is a quote from Yulang Piaoling on 2003-6-27 23:45:14:

The following is a quote from lydong on 2003-6-27 13:08:27:
Why not use WIN97 (that is, WINDOWS 95 OSR2)? It can well support FAT32.

The moderator can consider this suggestion and give it a try~~~

If it succeeds, the WIN97 core can be taken out to make a mini window system! 98 is too big, and after I minimized it to 70M at the smallest, I can't run other programs stably anymore~~~

Good idea, I will compare and then select the best MiniWin9x to make it. It is estimated that it will be MiniWin95B (97).

The following is a quote from savioler on 2003-6-27 13:32:12:
Can DOS8 start win32 without adding a patch?

What you are talking about is not pure DOS8, but the DOS8 before starting in WINME. Because Microsoft does not allow starting real-mode DOS, so you need to apply a patch. To make it real-mode, it is actually adding an IFSHLP.SYS.

Wengier, can you provide a streamlined and mini Windows file list so that I can analyze it?

Wengier, I support you