Hi Don et al, > USB installer is a different matter. > First, please disable BELL on lbacache - it wreaks havoc on my wifes's > hearing aid.
Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache errors beep: - impossible CHS geometry or cylinder in CHS access - unsupported and rather exotic INT13 disk BIOS calls - disk write errors and disk read errors - XMS driver errors (for example HIMEM A20 errors) - disk calls recursively doing other disk calls Please let me know which errors happen on your system. > Second on my Compaq Armada 1750 USB is only bootable by PLOP boot manager > and thus it a C: drive- this causes write protection on the USB (as it > should) with installer "confused" about how to handle the "ABORT, RETRY, > IGNORE error. Installation failed. That might mean that PLOP itself is more or less a "bootable read only USB stick driver", which is quite unusual. Maybe the USB DOS installer tries to write to the stick! That would be unnecessary, if you ask me: It is much faster to write to a small ramdisk - the installer should only need small amounts of writing apart from the writes to the target disk. It should have minimal usage of pipelines because in DOS, those work with temp files: dir | more basically is "dir > tempfile" followed by "more < tempfile". Luckily, command.com respects the TEMP or TMP variable setting for selecting temp dirs :-) If the beeps are due to write failure, then the installer will fail as well, because it probably relies on being able to put temp files in the stick. As said, it SHOULD not rely on that anyway, IMHO... Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
