Hi Jeremy, You made me spot a fatal mistake in what I did! I was thinking my floppy drive was A: - but it wasn't. As I said in my post, I was booting FreeDOS from CD-ROM, but that means A: is the emulation session of the CD-ROM, _not_ the floppy (duh!), the floppy (containing MD-DOS 6.22) would have been the B: drive!
So I should have issued SYS B: C: It probably still won't work, but at least I'll be using the correct command. Ultimately, what I want to do is use FreeDOS to transfer a saved MS-DOS 6.22 boot sector direct to a FAT32 C drive; I've played around with the /OEM:MS switch in the past but couldn't get it to work. The purpose of this is to trick Windows setup into thinking it's upgrading from MS-DOS, otherwise it puts FreeDOS on a dual boot menu as my "Previous Operating System". Kenneth J. Davis wrote: > Gerry Hickman wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Today I did this from a FreeDOS bootable CD; >> >> 1. Use FDISK to delete all primary partitions, but leave MBR >> 2. FDISK /PRI:2000 (2Gb FAT32 Ext13) >> 3. FDISK /Activate:1 (boot to first primary at next HD reboot) <reboot> >> 3. FORMAT C: <say yes to confirm> >> >> I now have an empty working C: drive with FreeDOS boot sector >> >> I insert an MS-DOS 6.22 system floppy into A: and type >> >> SYS A: C: >> >> (I want to install MS-DOS boot-sector, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS to C:) >> >> What happens next?? It installs FreeDOS boot sector, and kernel to the C >> drive!! That's not what I told it to do... >> > > Where (what drive) are sys, kernel.sys, io.sys & msdos.sys on? > Or more clearly is kernel.sys and sys on the same (current) drive and > the MS-DOS files (io.sys & msdos.sys) on A:, so instead of looking at > the source drive sys appears to be using the kernel from the current > drive? or are all three on the same drive, in which case you must > specify using the /OEM:MS (I think) option so that the FreeDOS kernel is > ignored, as default search order [which you may have found a bug in] > will assume you want boot the FreeDOS kernel before any other DOSes > (unless sys is compiled for Enhanded DR-DOS, in which case it flips FD > with EDR kernel names in its list). Also please let me know which > version of sys you are using. > > Thanks, > Jeremy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
