My Win98SE install is on top of DOS 6.2...
Ah.
Dual booting?
I think I read that in another post of yours once upon a time.
sorry about the confusion.
No big deal.
It inherits all device drivers i needed for DOS.
I could be wrong here, but when you do that, I think whatever you've put in config.sys is dominant. It overrides whatever Windoze would have done.
Am I on track?
Nevermind on the device drivers.
But your saying a clean install of Win98SE has an empty config and autoexec ? ?
config.sys here is empty. And I believe it started out that way too. I'm pretty sure I'd remember if I had ever doctored it.
Regarding autoexec.bat, changes were made to it by some software as it installed.
C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVGFRE~1\BOOTUP.EXE
PATH=%path%;c:\utils;"D:\Program Files\Executive Software\DiskeeperLite\"
If you eliminate AVG and DiskeeperLite (who recommended that, eh?
)
and also eliminate my utils dir, all you have left is the variable for the original path. I seem to remember doing it that way when I wanted to add my utils dir.
So yes, I think autoexec.bat was originally an empty file too.
As to your last question i was stating that tweaking Win98 for additional memory does not have to be done at the install point...it can be addressed later.
This was in reference to the OP installing with 1G of RAM...
Sorry but i'm guilty of Old School...i've never installed Win95 or 98SE without DOS being present first.
I don't think I've ever installed it over DOS. It just worked out that way.
I have installed QEMM to manage memory for DOS, then installed DESQView to multi-task DOS, but that is going back a ways.
p.s. A quick google, and I find a few pages where they say that neither config.sys or autoexec.bat are necessary with Win98.
I have no idea if the writers are good reference though. Didn't dig that hard.