Hi Mark, Mans, as far as I understand, LASTDRIVE is the only problem. > I can think of two simple things. First, try adding the line > LASTDRIVE=Y > to your config.sys file.
Or to your fdconfig.sys file if you use that instead. FreeDOS will first look for fdconfig.sys and use config.sys only if there is no fdconfig.sys - useful on dual-boot systems. > In autoexec.bat, you should have a line > for the CDROM driver. Mine is: > mscdex.exe /D:MSCD001 /L:R Mark, MSCDEX, for FreeDOS? We have SHSUCDX! It is small (in RAM and on disk) and flexible :-)). Read the docs for SHSUCDX command line option syntax, but it is quite similar to MSCDEX syntax. > (config.sys contains > device=oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001) Well, FreeDOS does have ATAPICDD, a generic driver, but I must say that ATAPICDD is far too SLOW and UNRELIABLE (it sometimes fails to detect that a read error has happened), so OAKCDROM is okay at the moment until ATAPICDD gets better. However, what is much more useful is Acer VIDE-CDD 2.14 (you can get it as "real mode CD-ROM driver" from their homepage). Very small, quite fast, works with basically all IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives. For SCSI drives, you would get drivers from the SCSI controller vendor, e.g. Adaptec has a nice collection on their page. > the "/L:R" sets the CD drive letter to "R". If you have set it > to something like "E", the third partition on the hard drive would > also be "E" and you might have a problem. I think that Mans did not use the /L option. He probably allowed SHSUCDX to select a drive letter itself, but there were just not enough drive letters left over. Using LASTDRIVE=Y will help :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
