Hi, Jeremy is right, FreeDOS boots in seconds, so it is best to just reboot. Dynamic drive letter assignment is not what DOS programs are used to cope with.
HOWEVER, useful aspects of "re-read partitions" would be: - you can scan a PCMCIA disk after initializing the disk controller - you can rescan a normal harddisk after loading an improved version of our UDMA2 driver, to gain access to the full disk even if the BIOS can only access the first 32, 64 or 128 Gigabytes. - possibly other things :-). About "you first partition, then reboot, then restore a diskimage, then reboot, then edit the config, then reboot to Windows" in your WinXP net installer system: You could avoid one or two steps by using a tool which can copy the image to raw space / which reads the partition table itself. I think this is quite normal for disk image tools: You do not copy the image to a drive letter, you copy it to a partition. So DOS'es drive letter system is not involved. A second reboot might be saved by using a DOS version of the mtools (known from Linux) to copy files to "unmounted" filesystems, e.g. to the restored partition before it even has a drive letter. By the way, WinXP should better use NTFS instead of FAT anyway. There are tools like ntfs4dos to copy files to NTFS. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
