bob jones

Very old computer pav 6330, no usb support by bios ok, I'm trying to boot the usb drive because all of the ide's are in use 2 dvd's, 2 drives. So trying to force a 5th drive by plop. I learned that part of linux dosen't unload with the chain loader and will make the drive write-protected with a memory conflict. Unless there is a way to manually knock it out of memory , probaly will never work sorry for being confuseing. But hey I love freedos btw, thankyou for keeping dos alive,

Can I use another drive desination other than C:\ ? I Tried changing auto and config to x: but it complained about not finding command, I did change every instance to X:\ for boot files, but it didn't work . I think the bios is permantly assigning C to ide 1, The usb boot's but is blocked by memory and resources being assigned to IDE 1 C:\ conflicting . I used a solid state sata drive instead of a sdd , tried many different drives , and I can write to the other drives now without error, weird, but...

forced usb issue, linux has this bug too, hates being forced booted, curious if freedos can overcome this , so freedos boots to the usb drive and runs fine - errors , but live dvd and floppy emu won't see the drive. Booting hard drive from live or floppy emu bootmenu boots ide hard drive instead not sure if theres a path change from livedvd image,The stock installed line for temp is, set TEMP=%dosdir%\TEMP, even writing direct in the temp folder spams the errors, than writes the file. Or won't see...