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DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术（启动盘室） » Why can't DiskGen be used on a Win98 boot disk?

Floor1　hostility	Posted 2003-08-19 00:00
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DiskGen really does look pretty good, but for some reason, as soon as I run it the system either hangs or just reboots. I wonder whether any of you experts have run into this kind of situation. Also, when making boot disks, aren't we limiting ourselves too much to floppies? We can write batch files and make menus, with options to read data from a CD into a virtual drive. Wouldn't that make a very good bootable CD?

Floor2　hostility	Posted 2003-08-19 00:00
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ps: it's that DiskGen 2.0 one, as soon as I run it everything goes to h#！#%%………

Floor3　cn_archer	Posted 2003-08-19 00:00
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No way? I put DiskGen on the boot disk generated by Win98 itself, and it's always worked smoothly for me. Could it be that there's something wrong with your boot disk?

Floor4　iceboy	Posted 2003-08-19 00:00
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As for the DiskGen problem, you can try it out slowly yourself, like a clean boot (cLEAN bOOT), HIMEM boot (hIMEM oNLY)...... Anyway, this isn't really a big problem, maybe..... it's very complicated Bootable CDs have existed for a long time already. But the most primitive thing was still “multi-floppy boot,” hehe! Back in the DOS 6.2 era, I made a boot disk set (7 disks total) and gave it to my classmates...... Now I've bought a 32x burner (32x, so slow!) and can finally... BOOTCD... but I can't bear to waste CD-R(W) ah... so I can only practice with VPC + Winimage.

Floor5　savioler	Posted 2003-08-20 00:00
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There may be a problem with memory allocation. When I use that software, it often crashes because the memory setup isn't correct!

Floor6　柳五	Posted 2003-08-20 00:00
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Check whether there's still space left on your floppy... DiskGen needs a little extra space.

Floor7　hostility	Posted 2003-08-20 00:00
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Thanks, everyone. After trying things out, I've already solved this problem. It was mainly a memory allocation issue. DiskGen 2.0 uses more memory than DiskMan 1.3, and conventional memory has to be at least close to 600K. Originally, when there was no UMB manager (such as emm386.exe), loading smartdrv, mouse, etc. made the available memory insufficient. If anyone runs into some program that won't run in the future, try checking whether it's this kind of problem. Thanks!!

Floor8　iceboy	Posted 2003-08-20 00:00
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DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=UMBPCI.SYS (Just adding these two is enough, don't use EMM)