Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!B.C.Phillips From: B.C.Phillips@massey.ac.nz (B.C.M. Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS swappers Summary: Boot.sys is nice tooo! :) Keywords: AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS boot Message-ID: <1991May21.055507.6635@massey.ac.nz> Date: 21 May 91 05:55:07 GMT References: <1991May15.151517.22723@aero.org> <10744@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Lines: 27 X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2.2 Hi, I had a need for a similar product, and I am now using Boot.sys, which is a shareware? product ( that I must get around to registering, 'cause it has a persistant message that keeps on telling me that it isn't registered :). It is a step better than the - copy a new config and autoexec to the root and reboot - type of program in that it runs from 1 config.sys and autoexec.bat file. The config.sys starts off with the common stuff for all the boot sequences you want, then calls the BOOT.SYS driver which reads the rest of the config.sys and creates a menu to allow you to run thru different versions of the config.sys depending on what you choose. This can then be followed by other stuff that is common to all the config.sys'. Then in the autoexec.bat you make a call to BOOT.COM which returns an errorlevel depending on the choice you made in the config.sys menu. I got it out of the sysutl directory in Simtel20. I find it really handy as we use PC-NFS and the drivers take up 94K that I feel could be better spent when I am not using the net. I have had no problems with the product so far ( touch wood :). Cheers Brenden --------------------------------------------------------------------- #include B.C.Phillips@massey.ac.nz Brenden Phillips, School of Math and Info Sciences, Massey University.