you mention APPEND. in its current form, it's just an interface without any effect.
Scandisk has exactly the same. Nice looking program, but does nothing usable.
as you can see from the beta9pr4.zip I made and Jim Hall posted on the frontpage, it would include another 1.2MB to the cdrom size.
and that for an operating system that consists of at least 2 files (kernel, shell) and is usable for embedded purposes.
15MB installation size would be too bloated. Even the open source NT clone called ReactOS comes in about 8MB..
download times and bandwidth usage will increase.
I'll add the UNZIP program from Infozip again.
Atapi CD and DVD is nowadays used most, indeed. Don't know on which platform (486, Pentium?) the ATAPI specification was introduced.
(thus no more "hang your IDE cd device on an interface card or sound card").
Eric Auer might be interested if you can get a copy of that faulty bootsector (which is what SYS writes, besides copying some critical files).
I use COPYBS on the bootdisk for this purpose until the SYS command is hopefully expanded to save and write bootsectors.
If your disc already had a bootable MSDOS on it, then yes, SYS C: from within FreeDOS will probably cause another faulty bootsector.
Dump it to file, send to Eric, and use MSDOS again to SYS C:, then FreeDOS to SYS C:
AtapiCDD is commented out by default. In Vmware, a 'complete' PC Emulator, it causes a crash and won't recover from it.
so far so good for the multiple menu options, so I can bypass a faulty configuration and fix it (comment out atapicdd).
AtapiCDD finds a fake cdrom drive. The situation in which I experience this is that primary master is harddisk, and primary slave is empty.
in that case, primary slave is detected as a cdrom drive. programming bug I guess. Jeremy handles that, as it is his program.
Bernd
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