My way of making a boot disk! Totally different from yours! - China DOS Union Forum

1. It has to be small and fast!
The following only applies to ones based on MS-DOS
My boot files are only 3!
msdos.sys, io.sys ,command.com, I'm using MS-Dos8.0
That is, the one that comes with WinMe, because in some ways it's better than the one in Win98!
2. Absolutely no Autoexec.bat or Config.sys files
In other words, don't load anything else at startup!
I really dislike all kinds of Chinese boot disks and such on the Internet!
They have lots of functions, but one boot takes several minutes! Slower than entering WinXP!
And they even do startup screens, load Chinese, and all kinds of other boot menus!
Floppies are already old-timers to begin with, and after all that they're practically dying anyway, in one word: slow
But when I use only those three files, I can enter the system and start working in 2 seconds, that's efficiency!
As for memory, I didn't load any memory-related programs, and so far I haven't run into any problems. Even running Ghost2003 is no problem, and that file is almost 1M
Besides, most of the time when using it to boot it's for maintenance, not for playing any big games, so there's no need to worry about memory
As for why Ghost2003 can run, I don't know. Logically there shouldn't be that much memory
When experts see this, please help explain it to me, thanks!
3. Everything else can be mounted when needed!
For example, for the Chinese character support system, I only need to type TW and it's mounted, much nicer than loading it at startup
And most of the time there's no need to mount it
Also, long filenames, NTFS, etc. can all be entered when needed!
The CD-ROM can be done this way too. I don't think it's necessary to load the CD-ROM at startup
Because using the CD-ROM isn't that common in the first place, and now there are those that can manually load the CD-ROM after startup is complete!
Here I have to ask the experts for help again:
It seems there is something called CTLOAD or something that loads the CD-ROM after startup?
I don't know exactly how to load it, experts please write it below, thanks

I heard VIDE-CDD.SYS is very good, though it seems a bit big, over 10K
It seems there are even smaller ones. Can I avoid using that MSCDEX thing? I still don't know much about this
Why do you still need this after using the driver?
I hope the experts can provide a method for loading the CD-ROM with the smallest size and fastest speed
I found that the CD-ROM one in FreeDOS seems very small, and it doesn't use MSCDEX either
There are some other questions I can't think of right now
I'll ask everyone after I think of them
I hope the experts will kindly give guidance
So I can make my own small and fast boot disk
Thanks, everyone

Floor1　sunbinjin	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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1. It has to be small and fast! The following only applies to ones based on MS-DOS My boot files are only 3! msdos.sys, io.sys ,command.com, I'm using MS-Dos8.0 That is, the one that comes with WinMe, because in some ways it's better than the one in Win98! 2. Absolutely no Autoexec.bat or Config.sys files In other words, don't load anything else at startup! I really dislike all kinds of Chinese boot disks and such on the Internet! They have lots of functions, but one boot takes several minutes! Slower than entering WinXP! And they even do startup screens, load Chinese, and all kinds of other boot menus! Floppies are already old-timers to begin with, and after all that they're practically dying anyway, in one word: slow But when I use only those three files, I can enter the system and start working in 2 seconds, that's efficiency! As for memory, I didn't load any memory-related programs, and so far I haven't run into any problems. Even running Ghost2003 is no problem, and that file is almost 1M Besides, most of the time when using it to boot it's for maintenance, not for playing any big games, so there's no need to worry about memory As for why Ghost2003 can run, I don't know. Logically there shouldn't be that much memory When experts see this, please help explain it to me, thanks! 3. Everything else can be mounted when needed! For example, for the Chinese character support system, I only need to type TW and it's mounted, much nicer than loading it at startup And most of the time there's no need to mount it Also, long filenames, NTFS, etc. can all be entered when needed! The CD-ROM can be done this way too. I don't think it's necessary to load the CD-ROM at startup Because using the CD-ROM isn't that common in the first place, and now there are those that can manually load the CD-ROM after startup is complete! Here I have to ask the experts for help again: It seems there is something called CTLOAD or something that loads the CD-ROM after startup? I don't know exactly how to load it, experts please write it below, thanks I heard VIDE-CDD.SYS is very good, though it seems a bit big, over 10K It seems there are even smaller ones. Can I avoid using that MSCDEX thing? I still don't know much about this Why do you still need this after using the driver? I hope the experts can provide a method for loading the CD-ROM with the smallest size and fastest speed I found that the CD-ROM one in FreeDOS seems very small, and it doesn't use MSCDEX either There are some other questions I can't think of right now I'll ask everyone after I think of them I hope the experts will kindly give guidance So I can make my own small and fast boot disk Thanks, everyone

Floor2　playboy2925	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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BENQ's CD-ROM driver under DOS is pretty good, give it a try.

Floor3　沈洁	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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Isn't BENQ's CD-ROM driver under DOS just VIDE-CDD.SYS?

Floor4　sunbinjin	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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Can you tell me how to load it? Not load it at startup, but load it manually afterward! Thanks It would be best if you write out the BAT file syntax too

Floor5　pfox	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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ctload vide-cdd.sys /d:pfcd shsucdx /d:pfcd (or mscdex /d:pfcd)

Floor6　沈洁	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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Just like above!

Floor7　sunbinjin	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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Oh, so that's all, very simple, thanks! One question, what does this /d:pfcd mean? Also, why is it that ctload vide-cdd.sys /d:pfcd still isn't enough, and you also need shsucdx /d:pfcd Why do it that way?

Floor8　沈洁	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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vide-cdd.sys is the CD-ROM driver! shsucdx is the CD-ROM extension driver!

Floor9　frankwoods	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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pfcd can be changed freely! Usually it's something like mscd001 Actually I didn't understand this question from the start: is there a difference between a CD-ROM extension driver and a CD-ROM driver? Is there no integrated driver program?

Floor10　zl7322	Posted 2003-08-01 00:00
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DOS8.0, same idea.

Floor11　电吉入侵	Posted 2003-08-02 00:00
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I agree with the OP's idea. The boot CD I made has two options inside, "graphical" and "command", precisely because of this issue; there's also an option inside, "make floppy boot disk". The boot disk it makes is pretty close to what the OP described, it's msdos7.1 and only loads HIMEM.SYS and ESCAPE.EXE(1.06K); CD-ROM/USB mouse/Chinese support etc. all have a bat for them, and are loaded only when needed... Since I mainly use boot disks for maintenance, sometimes it's just to boot up a machine for a moment, so if I also had to wait several minutes it wouldn't be worth it... The boot disk I made, give me some suggestions:http://www2.zzu.edu.cn/ie/newdos/dispbbs.asp?boardID=11&ID=5206