Hi Don, > 1) BIOS Set in IDE emulation - NO issues with FDNPKG. > 2) BIOS Set in Native SATA mode with AHCI.SYS, FDNPKG is prevented from > extracting the executable files. Perhaps a security feature of this PC
No. AHCI / SATA is just the newer way of talking to various drives compared to IDE. If the AHCI driver for DOS has stability issues, you should simply disable it: DOS should still be able to access the harddisk using the BIOS anyway. For CD/DVD access, things are SUPPOSED to still work thanks to ElTorito boot CD/DVD support in the BIOS. However, if you use AHCI for CD/DVD and do NOT boot the PC from the DOS CD/DVD, you would have to use AHCI style drivers. Also, ElTorito support in some BIOS versions may have bugs, too. > 2) Create an ondisk REPO directory and copy the all_cd.iso repos to it Easier: Copy the single ISO file itself to harddisk and use that. We have DOS drivers which are able to simulate a CD/DVD directly from the ISO :-) > 3) Copy the all_cd.iso file to the hard drive and run SHUCDHD then install > from the hard drive iso file. This works very well and has the coolness Exactly :-) Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
