This program will patch IO.SYS on either a Windows 95 OSR2 or a Windows
98 (i.e. MS-DOS 7.1 FAT32) bootable floppy for use as a boot image on
bootable CD-ROMs. When booting from a CD-ROM, your boot image must load
a CD-ROM driver in order to be able to read any files on the portion of
the CD beyond the boot image. This is normally done by loading a DOS
CD-ROM driver in your boot image's CONFIG.SYS file. The problem is that
loading the CD-ROM driver resets the drive, and some CD-ROM drives take
several seconds to reset, during which time your booting CD is
unreadable. Therefore, when CONFIG.SYS tries to load any additional
device drivers and your command-line interpreter shell, such as
COMMAND.COM, it can't find them and you get an error message like, 'The
following file is missing or corrupted: ...' Needless to say, your CD
doesn't completely boot. IOPATCH modifies your MS-DOS 7.1 bootable
floppy's IO.SYS so that the boot process will wait until the disk is
readable before loading each device driver and before loading the
command-line interpreter shell. It also modifies the text displayed
when the disk boots to remind you that you are using a customized
version of IO.SYS.

Special requirements: The DOS command attrib.exe.

Changes: Added a dialog to tell the user whether or not IO.SYS has
already been patched, then asks for confirmation before
actually applying the patch.

iopat14.zip has replaced iopat13.zip.

Freeware. Uploaded by the author.

Gary Tong
g.t@mailcity.com

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