Hi Kenneth,
I have just tested then new SYS 3.6, May 28 2005. Backup-boot-sector is
just fine: chacked with diskedit and dosfsck stopped complaining :))
(after the workaround indicated bellow)
THANKS very much,
BUT it does have another problem that makes it fail. This is how I made
the test:
1)I booted with a MS-DOS 7.10 floppy and issued "SYS C:". System was
transfered, I checked the backup boot-sector and it was updated too,
dosfsck does not complain.
2) I booted wit a FreeDOS floppy, issued "SYS C:" and I hav a a very
nasty message:
[...]
writing backup bootsector to sector 6
Now copying system files...
Copying A:KERNEL.SYS...
44009 bytes transfered
Copying shell (command interpreter)...
Copying A:COMMAND.COM
SYS: can't create"C:\COMMAND.COM"
DOS errnum 6
SYS Trying shell from ?%COMSPEC?%="A:\COMMAND.COM"
Copying A:\COMMAND.COM...
SYS: can't create"C:\COMMAND.COM"
DOS errnum 6
SYS: failed to find command interpreter (shell) file COMMAND.COM
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Tha problem is that c:\command.com is READ-ONLY. Issuing "attrib -r
c:\command.com" solves the problem.
IMHO, SYS should take this into account (R/O is standard in newer
versions of MS-DOS and some DR-DOS) and remove that attribute before
erasing the destination file.
I also believe that the message is a little miss-leading because it
points the problem to the source command.com when it is not. I propose
changing "failed do find" to "failed to copy"
Thanks again,
Alain
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