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to: PASCAL SCHMIDT
from: CHARLES ANGELICH
date: 2003-12-04 00:07:00
subject: Re: KNOPPIX

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Hello Pascal - 

CA>> My assumption is based on the sudden appearance of a
CA>> dosbox when I insert the KNOPPIX CD into a running W2K
CA>> system. I may be mistaken but it seems one of the autoboot
CA>> systems for CDs is based on DOS to some degree? 

PS> The CD may be mastered with autorun information that tries
PS> to do something under Windows, yeah, but the CD boot
PS> process doesn't need any DOS. Trust me, I've coded all that
PS> stuff for myself recently. 

I believe you but a dosbox wouldn't popup in W2K unless the CD
was executing a DOS binary. 

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