China DOS Union

The following is the statement from luchunrong on 2003-6-20 15:15:03:
My system is XP, C drive and D drive are NTFS, while E drive and F drive are FAS32.
After booting the computer with the super universal MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk, it prompts that E drive and F drive are not found.
I don't know what's going on?

That's because the FAT32 E drive and F drive have become C drive and D drive. For the NTFS partition, please select the third or fourth option when booting to drive it.

Admiration! Admiration! Can you provide a hard disk installation version?

It seems that quite a number of people have problems when loading USB drivers with boot disks, sir. Is it that DUSE doesn't support certain chipset? For example, the 845 series? And sir, you mentioned before that this problem can be solved by making some modifications, but I didn't seem to see the specific method provided in the post? Or is it that I haven't found it because I've read few posts? Please give guidance.

The following is the speech of Long Shao H on 2003-6-21 12:01:16:
It seems that many people have problems when using the boot disk to load the USB driver, boss. Is it that DUSE doesn't support some chip sets? For example, the 845 series??

DUSE can drive some USB drives; USBASPI can drive some USB drives; ASPI?HCI can drive some USB drives; and when they are used together, they can drive another part of USB drives; however, DUSE may cause problems when loaded on some systems, so, according to the specific situation of your computer, you can delete DUSE and let USBASPI or ASPI?HCI drive the USB drive.

It is better to make another one for hard disk booting.

An important issue is the lack of support for USB keyboards and mice! Hope you can solve it!

Suggest the moderator to give a detailed explanation of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files of this boot disk. It is beneficial for ordinary DOS users to improve or simplify (the target should be non-beginners) by modifying these two files, and it can also solve many problems that computers cannot use this disk.

Okay.

When AUTOEXEC.BAT runs to the following statement, it crashes. What's the reason? Of course, my hard drive is normal, and there are two hard drives installed on the same computer. I use different hard drives by switching the power supply system of the hard drives after shutting down (one uses 98, and the other uses XP, not for installing a dual system but for data security)
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO Warning: Can't find any valid hard drives!

Moderator: Hello.
I am also an old novice. After discovering your boot disk, I have been researching your boot disk. I have also posted a thread.
Put forward a few opinions:
1. For novices, the commonly used compression software now is WINRAR. The MAKEBOOT.BAT and HD-COPY.EXE in your software, they don't know what they are, and don't even know what a batch file is. So there are quite a lot of people asking you the question of "the floppy disk can't hold it". You should make it into a RAR compressed file, which is easier to understand.
2. Your software is a bit large for a 1.44 floppy disk!! After decompressing with your batch processing and then starting, when trying to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, it prompts that the floppy disk is full!! HD-COPY is rarely used, especially for novices! I used HDWIN to extract the files and then formatted a 1.68 disk, copied it over, but the system couldn't start. Then I remembered that the system only recognizes 1.44, not to mention novices. ..... There should be space to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
3. The commands to decompress DOSET.CAB and so on should be placed in front of the batch processing. If there is a problem, you can edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
4. Network administrators are all experts and don't need these. For general people's applications, only the requirement is to recognize USB disks and USB hard disks, SCSI and such things, after all, they are few. Your UTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS are too complicated. For example, my requirement is: when the system crashes, it can start the USB disk, CD-ROM and USB mobile hard disk, etc., and can reinstall from the mobile hard disk or copy the installation disk to the hard disk and then reinstall the system.
5. There are too many boot menus. There should be only 2 or 4 items. If there are no USB devices, it's just a bit slower. At most add one more item to directly go to the root directory.
6. DEBUG.EXE, ARJ and so on, novices and for system recovery used (there are many such software).
7. XZL should have Chinese input method, not the locational one.

The previous post should be that only 3 or 4 items need to be started. UOTEXEC.BAT should be AUTOEXEC.BAT. Does this BBS have a modification function?

The following is the speech quoted from junxm on 2003-6-26 7:28:00:
    1、For novices, the currently common compression software is WINRAR. They don't know what MAKEBOOT.BAT and HD-COPY.EXE in your software are, and even don't know what a batch file is. So there are quite a lot of people asking you the question "the floppy disk can't hold it". You should make it into a RAR compressed file for better understanding.
    2、Your software is a bit large for a 1.44 floppy disk!! After decompressing with your batch processing and then starting, when trying to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, it prompts that the floppy disk is full!! HD-COPY is rarely used, especially by novices! I released the files with HDWIN and then formatted a 1.68 disk, copied it over, but the system couldn't start. Then I remembered that the system only recognizes 1.44, not to mention novices... There should be space to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.
    5、There are too many startup menus. Only 2 or 4 items are enough. Without USB devices, it's just a bit slower. At most add one more item to directly go to the root directory.
    6、DEBUG.EXE, ARJ and the like, used by novices and for system recovery (there are many such software)

1: It can be considered to make a special version for RAR decompression. But I don't have WinRAR, so everyone can help make it.
2: Actually, it's not that the software is large, but that there are many software (there are a large number of small-sized software inside) so the floppy disk space is all occupied. In fact, users can delete some files they don't need. For example, if they don't need the boot logo, they can delete LOGO.SYS to save a lot of space to put other contents.
5: Actually, the reason for doing this is that some USB drivers (such as DUSE) occupy a large amount of memory. Even when there are no USB devices, they will be loaded and occupy a large amount of memory, causing waste. So let users make a choice.
6: Programs like DEBUG and UNARJ are already in this startup disk, although they are not used much.

Supporting USB flash drives is very good. It's a pity that not all machines can use them. My same USB flash drive can be used after booting on the machine at home, but when I took it to the office machine and booted with the same disk, the USB drive was not detected. The office machine is a relatively new P4, and the home machine is an older P3. Is it because the USB driver doesn't support the newer motherboard chipset? It is suggested to study how to make it usable on newer machines as well. Is there a latest version of the USB driver in the boot disk?

The fact that USB flash drives cannot be used under DOS is a big drawback. The drivers provided by the manufacturers are only for Windows. The ability to use USB flash drives under DOS is very convenient for installing systems. Put the cab package of Win98 in it, and then take a boot disk to install Win98 on any bare machine. Why don't the manufacturers of USB flash drives study this? This will greatly increase the value of USB drives. Only when it can be used under DOS can it completely replace the floppy drive; otherwise, it's just empty talk and the value is not very high. The bootable USB drive provided by the manufacturer can only use 1.44M after booting, which is also a big drawback. Such a boot is valueless, and other files are not visible. If a manufacturer can produce a USB flash drive that can be fully used under DOS, it will be a great advantage.

The fact that USB flash drives cannot be used in DOS is a fatal shortcoming!, and I hope the forum moderator can do more research in this regard.

wengier, I have burned your super boot disk onto a CD.

① It indicates that Chinese file names are supported, but when using the DIR command, the Chinese file names displayed are garbled;
② After entering the program and reading the instructions, I pressed EXIT to exit, but it ended up shutting down the machine;
③ It would be more convenient if a Chinese pinyin input method could be included, because nowadays quite a lot of people use pinyin as it is convenient.