I worked out a simple solution to this 2 disk floppy boot system.

I used the Win98 boot image & simply loaded himem.sys - no emm - + cd drivers in usual manner. Included the dos version of pqmagic directory, including the hidden files, in the root of BCDW cd. Used te findcd.exe to determine the cdrom drive letter & set the environmental variable - cdrom . The last command in my autoexec.bat is

%cdrom%\pqmagic\pqmagic.exe.

Works like a charm. If you want I can send you the boot image. I have different versions including the dma driver as device driver, TSR & without dma support.

Hope this helps.

hello, thanks for your offer, but my 2.88Mb image works now fine

The things i did - i copied all the files (+ hidden files) in the 2.88Mb image - that's real important, the other thing is change the attributes

And it work's

Here my autexec.bat:

CLS

@ECHO Off

PROMPT $P$G

mscdex.exe /d:cd001 /l:h /m:16

mouse.com

PQMAGIC /NSS /PQB=C:\windows\temp

reboot.com

... and the config.sys:

InstallHigh=keyb2.com > NUL

Files=10

Buffers=10

Dos=high,umb

Stacks=9,256

Device=oakcdrom.sys /d:cd001 > NUL

LastDrive=z

Greetz to all

Edited September 20, 200520 yr by UrcelPower

I found an even simpler method.

You have a sub folder named dos under your pqmagic installation. Simply copy the folder to the root of your CD compilation & rename it suitably, say pqmagc. Make sure you include all the hidden files also.

Create a win98 boot image. Include findcd utility in it. Set the parameter for %cdrom% using this utility.

use emm386 /noems & make lastdisk=z in config.sys

Add following 3 lines to the end of autoexec.bat

%cdrom%:

cd .\pqmagic

pqmagic.exe

Use this image in your multiboot cd.

If you can find & use udma dos drivers the pqmagic process speeds up substantially.

Works like a charm.

In fact I have a created a single image file to do variety of things under dos 7.01 from creation of partitions to installing OS like Win98/ME and 2K.

Edited September 23, 200520 yr by pmshah