On 11/09/2013 10:35 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi John, > >> As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions >> are complex. Nothings easy! I also have a tendency to not explain >> completely. Usually I'm pretty precise. I am not running any MS >> Windows on this computer. I am running the "DOS 7.10" from Win98 on >> this computer so I can make use of Fat32, getting more efficiency on a >> UK MB HD. I primarily use this computer to connect to a DOS network > Well your problem is also complex: You want two DOS versions, FreeDOS > and Win98-DOS, on the same computer. Because they use the same style > of drive letter "numbering", some extra effort is involved in keeping > their configuration separate while they both use the same C: drive. > > I hope the docs for metakern help you regarding this config trickery. > Unless of course you simply want to replace Win98 DOS 7.10 by FreeDOS, > then you do not have to worry about how to keep Win98 DOS bootable... > > > to clarify, I ran sys c: from a freedos floppy to write over the win98 OS with freedos. that is how this all started. John
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
