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Instructions for my instant Chinese-localized boot disk
RSDS SUPER BOOTDISK
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㈠Origin:
Because my English foundation was poor, when I was first learning DOS, looking at a whole screen full of letters made my head feel bigger than a pumpkin. So I had a wish: to make something that could instantly switch between Chinese and English under DOS. But I was too much of a newbie and had no idea how to start. Later I found an old version of Oriental Express 2000 at a friend's place, and treated it like a treasure. Then came the first version of my instant Chinese-localization setup. Few tools and slow speed were its biggest characteristics. The Chinese-language platform used was a slimmed-down version of Tianhui. I still remember that back then, no matter what I tried, I just couldn't make the CD-ROM load at any time on demand. That was in September 2001.

㈡Features
Although this disk is based on the Win98 boot disk, because of floppy space limitations it has already been changed beyond recognition. It has the following new features:
- Multi-configuration boot menu
- Full Chinese and English long filename support
－Instant Chinese/English localization switching
- NTFS drive support
- USB drive support
- Powerful antivirus and hard disk repair functions
- Load CD-ROM on demand
- RAM disk function
- Full mouse support
- System maintenance functions
- Archive support
- Graphical file management
－Music playback, image viewing

㈢Usage
This boot disk has three menu choices. If you choose the first item, it will automatically load the CD-ROM and automatically run the kv3000 tool (antivirus and hard disk repair). The second item enters Chinese mode, opens this instruction file, automatically loads the localization switch, and loads the Pinyin input method. At this time you can type LOCDR to manually load the CD-ROM; by default the CD-ROM is not loaded. After booting the third item, you can view NT partitions and detect USB devices (not including USB flash drives).

㈣List and explanation
ASPICD.SYS Generic SCSI/ASPI CD-ROM driver
AUTOEXEC.BAT Startup batch file
CLOAKING.EXE Program that provides the CLOAKING API for memory, can reduce the memory usage of programs such as MSCDEX
COMMAND.COM Command interpreter of R-DOS 7.10.
CONFIG.SYS Startup configuration file
CP936UNI.TBL Simplified Chinese code page for DOSLFN 0.32n
CTLOAD.COM Directly loads device drivers under the DOS command line (such as CD-ROM drivers, etc.)
CWSDPMI.EXE The best DPMI memory driver under DOS
DOSKEY.COM Alternative Program version 1.6, provides command history, macro definitions, auto-completion, etc.
DOSLFN.COM The most powerful and practical long filename driver under DOS, provides Chinese and English long filename support
DOSVER.COM Practical tool for setting the DOS version number
EBD.ZIP Tool package 1 compressed in ZIP format
EMM386.EXE Tool included with MS-DOS 7.10 that provides UMB and EMS memory
FARC.EXE Archive content search software, supports dozens of archive formats, supports long filenames
FINDRAMD.EXE Practical tool for finding the drive letter of the RAM disk
HIMEM.SYS Tool that provides XMS memory, supports large memory
HUD.RAR Tool package 2 compressed in RAR format
GH95.COM Anti-crash miracle
ICMOS.EXE CMOS password viewing, backup, and modification tool
IO.SYS System boot file of MS-DOS 7.10
KILLER.EXE Can automatically intercept illegal instructions to prevent crashes 2
LFNXLAT.386 Provides long filename support under Windows 3.x for the DOSLFN long filename driver
LIST.EXE Text file reader; very suitable for reading long TXT files instead of the TYPE command
LOCDR.BAT Under the DOS command line, just type this to load the CD-ROM at any time without rebooting.
LOWDMA.SYS Provides ISA DMA UMB support for floppy disks
MOUSE Small and easy-to-use mouse driver
MSCDEX.EXE CD-ROM extension driver,
MSDOS.SYS System boot configuration file of MS-DOS 7.10
OAKCDROM.SYS Generic device driver for ATAPI CD-ROM drives
UNZIP.EXE ZIP extraction tool, supports long filenames
README.TXT Instruction file for this boot disk (that is, this file)
SFDISK.EXE Disk partitioning/formatting/multi-boot software under DOS, supports Chinese mode
SMARTDRV.EXE Disk cache program included with DOS
SMARTFLP.EXE Floppy acceleration tool, said to improve floppy read/write speed by up to 50%
UMBPCI.SYS Powerful and practical driver that provides UMB memory, version 3.45
XMSDSK.EXE Virtual RAM disk tool, very convenient and practical, and uses very little memory

###EBD.ZIP###
800.COM Support program for non-standard format software
ASSIGN.COM Redirect one drive letter to another
BOOTPART.EXE Boot partition manager version 2.50, powerful 2
DC.COM Powerful small file manager, manages files/directories through menus and shortcut keys
DDCOPY.COM Disk copy command
DEBUG.EXE Debugger included with MS-DOS 7.10 2
FBDISK.EXE Bad disk partitioner, can automatically mask physical bad sectors
KV3000.EXE Famous DOS antivirus and hard disk rescue tool
LF.EXE Hard disk low-level formatter
LOCATE.COM File search and locate tool version 1.30, supports long filenames
LXPIC.COM Small and fast image viewer, supports BMP, PIC, JPG, GIF, and many other image formats
MOUSCLIP.EXE Tool under DOS (including the DOS command line) for mouse copy/paste and simulating arrow keys
SETVER.EXE DOS version conversion program
SRC.COM Command-line ATX power reboot / soft shutdown program
SYS.COM System file transfer command included with DOS
uncmos Program for clearing CMOS information, can crack BIOS passwords
UNRAR.EXE Program for extracting ZIP archives under DOS
VIRUS.DAT Virus definition file for kv3000
ZENO.EXE Very good screen display acceleration software

###HBD.RAR###
CALC.COM Calculator
CDPLAY.COM MP3 player under DOS
CLOCK.COM Clock software
CMI.EXE Chinese memory detection
DEMUMGR.COM CD booting usually emulates a floppy drive; this can free up the floppy drive
DFKC.EXE Chinese-localizing translation program
DI.EXE Tool for extracting img
DUSE.EXE USB drive driver under DOS, can drive USB hard disks, CD-ROMs, floppy drives, etc.
EDIT2.COM Chinese-localization tool using extracted English strings
HH.IDX dfkc dictionary configuration file
HH.LIB dfkc dictionary library file
LXD.EXE Can virtualize IMG/DDI disk images as RAM floppy drive A:
NTFSDOS.EXE NTFS drive driver under DOS
PC.EXE PC TOOLS under DOS, supports FAT32, Shuangjing bilingual edition
QV1.EXE Multimedia viewer QuickView 1.03b, plays music and animation, views pictures
SUBST.EXE Very small program for setting virtual drives
VTHF Screenshot tool collection under DOS
XZL.COM Small Pocket Dragon Chinese character support system
XZLPY.COM Pinyin input method for the Pocket Dragon Chinese character support system

㈤Postscript
This revision of the boot disk referred to the MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk by Wengier, webmaster of the New DOS Era website. I would like to express my thanks here.
If any friends who use it well have opinions or suggestions, please contact me.

(E-mail)：gzj2008@sohu.comoryunge2003@msn.com

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Master Rushi
April 4, 2003



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Good, downloaded.

Downloaded, and gave you a bump while I was at it.

Wengier, have you tried it yet? I have a question: after I choose the third item and run ntfsdos, it can find the NT partition, but it can't read or write it. What is the reason?

That NTFSDOS is read-only, it really can't write.

Also, I want to say that to make DOSLFN support Chinese long filenames, you should use:
INSTALLHIGH=DOSLFN.COM /Z:CP936UNI.TBL

And remove the line
LH DOSLFN /C- /Z:CP963UNI.TBL
from AUTOEXEC.BAT, otherwise it is duplicated, and it only supports English long filenames.

As for loading USB drivers, you could consider adding programs like USBASPI.SYS and USBCD.SYS to support more USB devices.

Also, in CONFIG.SYS:
LASTDRIVE=32
and
LASTDRIVEHIGH=W

these two lines are duplicated, so LASTDRIVEHIGH=W can be removed.

Many thanks

What do you use to extract *.imz?

IMZ is actually an IMG image file compressed in ZIP format. First use PKUNZIP to extract it, then expand it with HD-COPY/DOSIMG/IMG/UNDISK and that's enough.

Because I didn't do detailed testing, there was a tiny little bug. I'm correcting it now, Open attachment and uploading it for everyone to criticize and correct. Open attachment There's also one more problem I'd like to ask the experts about. If the third option is set up like this, after loading, duse takes 233k and ntfsdos takes 260k, and all the memory gets eaten up. Is there any way to solve this?

Under Windows, imz files can be extracted directly to a floppy disk with winimage.

NTFSDOS shouldn't take 260K, right?! On my machine it's 180K.

It really does take 260k. How could this happen? Please, webmaster, help me take a look at config and autoexec.

Why can't that new RAR file be extracted (when I use UNRAR 3.10(DOS) or RAR 3.11(DOS) to extract it, both say there's a CRC error).

Note: the forum can now upload single attachments up to 1.5M.

It was made with rar3.2. I can't extract it under DOS either, and I was thinking of posting it online to ask the experts. Forget it, I'll just change it back. Open attachment

Done