I have a small DOS partition on my hard drive. I made a bootable CD from an old
WIN98SE boot 'floppy'. When I boot from the CD it doesn't even see the WinXP
partition and treats the DOS partition as C: drive. I have, only, CT and a
mouse driver installed on the DOS partition. When I'm finished contesting I
just boot regularly to XP. The DOS drive then becomes D: and the CT files can
easily be managed with any XP file manager. DOS runs really well in a P4@4ghz
w/1gig of ram.
That is my solution to CTWIN running in XP. CT DOS is still the finest contest
logging program available anywhere..!!!..
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: kd4d@comcast.net
To: ct-user@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 16:24
Subject: [ct-user] Successfully booted DOS from CD and ran CT from USB stick
Good afternoon, all:
I have been successful creating a MS-DOS boot CD, containing a
minimal MS-DOS installation, and running CT entirely from a USB
memory stick.
I have not been able to test this in combat conditions yet, but
it is working. Any volunteers?
I installed CT 10.002.001 on the USB stick and fired up the CQWW.
CW sending seems to be working.
The really neat thing about this is that I can download all of the
CT files, cty.dat, and master.dta in Windows and write them to the
USB stick in Windows. Then, reboot from the CD and go.
Basically, I booted the CD, with a minimal autoexec.bat and config.sys:
autoexec.bat
path=a:\;a:\dos71
smartdrv a+ c+
config.sys
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off
DEVICE=emm386.exe noems
DOS=high,umb
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20
LASTDRIVE=Z
The CD appears as a:. My USB stick happened to be D:, but yours
would probably be c:.
I put the CT files in D:\CT10 and created a log directory
d:\logs\ct. I put master.dta and cty.dat in the d:\logs\ct
directory (the way I like to configure), and entered
path=d:\ct10;%path%.
Then,
D:
cd logs\ct
ct
and started CT.
Using this technique, I can run CT under pure DOS on any
computer that supports booting from CD AND has bios
recognition of a USB stick without affecting the computer AT
ALL, without repartitioning the disk, and without permanately
installing DOS.
If anyone wants the procedure for creating the bootable CD,
drop me an e-mail. I am looking for volunteers to try this in a
real contest.
73,
Mark, KD4D
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