Hi Tom, > On Mar 3, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Tom Hale <tha...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > > On a 2008 vintage Windows 7 64 bit PC computer with ASUS board, FD13-LiveCD1 > did not work. The swap file could not be opened and FDLIVE.BAT failed. The > only directory was TEMP, with COMMAND.COM and KERNEL.SYS there too as drive > R:.
LiveCD1 creates a RAM drive starting at R: (or higher if unavailable) for the live FreeDOS filesystem. The failure to create a swap file is a fairly normal occurrence for 1.3-RC1 LiveCD1 and should not effect the startup of CD1. Basically, the 7zip decompresser needs CWSDPMI. The drive CWSDPMI uses for swap is “hard coded” into the executable and cannot be changed at runtime. There are tools that can change this setting in the executable. So, it should probably be updated to drive R: and possibly changed by the LiveCD at boot. During initial testing, the 7zip decompresser seemed to function adequately even with this error. Al that being said, how LiveCD1 failed on your system is interesting. It managed to “create” a RAM drive. But, failed to extract the minimum support files to bring up the live install. There couple reasons it may have failure. First, for some reason the SWAPFILE is required for the 7zip decompresser on that system. Second, the RAMDRIVE was created with different settings than instructed and/or was so tiny no files could be extracted. I have a couple quick questions. How much RAM does the system have? (Being LiveCD2 succeeded, probably lots) Roughly how much free space is there on drive R:? (KB, MB) Did COMMAND.COM <http://command.com/> and KERNEL.SYS copy completely or partially to drive R:? > > FD13-LiveCD2 did work for this computer. > I’m glad to here LiveCD2 works. Thanks, Jerome
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