Hi Bernd:
Thanks again. "Obviously" :-) I intend
> *boot the other partition, and let it become C:
On this machine, that isn't even on the first hard disk.
My boot loader will swap them and make the specific
partition active. However, when I boot from CD, the
MBR boot loader is bypassed. Then, when FreeDOS
comes up, it sees the "wrong" C:.
If I hide all of the primary partitions on the first hard drive,
I'm not quite sure what the BIOS will do. But, since it maps
the second drive primary FAT32 partition now, I guess it
would become C:. I tend to distrust "fdisk" programs on
80 Gig hard drives, but I know the newer ones will handle it.
Or, I can use one of the Linux tools to hide the partitions,
then unhide them. Ugh...I believe I mentioned that before!
Also, I know folks who are installing DOS to USB sticks to
be able to boot it on laptop computers. In this case, the
boot sector MUST be written to the USB stick. Somehow,
it rarely seems to be C:. Again, this works fine with MSDOS
and I could hack my way around it for FreeDOS, but...
Mark
> kd4d@... schreef:
>
> >I'd like to install FreeDOS manually, copying the files to
> >D:\fdos\bin and doing a "SYS D:" to get around this problem. How can
> >I easily get the \fdos\bin directory created without also writing a
> >bootsector to C:?
> >
> >
> That is not possible, because we want to guarantee that the system boots.
> If C: already contains an operating system, we'll now create a proper
> dualboot system.
> The config.sys is also written to be put on C:, with references to your D:
>
> If you put the files on another partition than C:, we don't know what
> you're intending:
> *boot FreeDOS from C:, but run programs from D:
> *boot the other partition, and let it become C:
>
> I can only recommend to use a tool (I hope our FDISK allows it) to set
> the correct primary partition active before running the FreeDOS installer.
> If you wait another day, you can try the updated FreeDOS distro, as I'm
> releasing that today.
>
> SYS D: should still be possible, but SYS C: has also been done, though.
> Can you describe a bit more about why you consider this a problem? Then
> I might try to work around it in a future release.
>
> Bernd
>
>
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