PC with DOS only .. .how to?

[dani]

Hello ALL,

I have an application which runs on dos only. I want to have a pc without windows and with dos only i.e. application starts automatically after system boots up. How to do this .. plz guide me.

Thanks
Dani

 

[M!k]

- install DOS from setup disks
- install your application
- add these lines to the AUTOEXEC.BAT (type 'edit autoexec.bat')
cd yourapplicationpath (e.g. cd c:\myproggi)
yourapplication.exe (e.g. programxy.exe)

 

[dani]

thanks for quick reply.
Please give me some example with santax. Also if what if i want to run a splash screen perior to launching actualy application. Such as logo/Welcome message scree etc.

dani

 

[master_picengineer]

Create a Dos System Disket and boot your PC using this disk.

 

[medap]

Find in internet DOS 7.10 CD image.
It is Chinas development and years was downloadable It install from CD and very sensible. If You have more drives, U can install Winxp on the another disk.

I have this system firstly installed XP on the logical drive D and after installed DOS 7.10 on the C drive. By default PC boot to DOS 7.10.

 

[tomanderson]

Call some DOS based picture viewer to display Logo.

 

[Maddogg6]

Perhaps ASCII art splash screen - faster than anything to display a bitmap I would think...

__          __  _                          
\ \        / / | |                         
 \ \  /\  / /__| | ___ ___  _ __ ___   ___ 
  \ \/  \/ / _ \ |/ __/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _ \
   \  /\  /  __/ | (_| (_) | | | | | |  __/
    \/  \/ \___|_|\___\___/|_| |_| |_|\___|

Made that with:
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

Google 'ACSII ART GEN' and you can find ones that convert bitmaps too..

 

[eltonjohn]

use this commands:
boot DOS ..maybe in a USB or in a floppy form
a full dos version will include all this commands :
fdisk.exe (create a partion with no more than 512 megs if i remeber) render it active
now depending of the disk you might need to low level format it .
this days all are already low level formated .otherwise there are plenty of tools in windows .i recall using debug and an entry to the bios of the controller to do that !
well you are probably several decades younger!
I saw it all ! i'm bored now
second
use then format c: /s
the command format .. will format high level the partition and will append
two systems files bios.sys and io.sys (the DOS system) and will also append a comand interpreter in the file command.com