Hi Ron, nice to know that Spinrite for DOS now supports NTFS, but what does Spinrite do? Defragging, disk checking...?
About the drive letters: You cannot boot a full DOS from raw cdrom, so we use a virtual A: drive. The contents of that drive are on a diskimage on the cdrom. The normal diskette drive is called B: while the virtual drive is used - only when you have booted from cdrom, in other words. There are cdrom drivers on the virtual A:, which allow DOS to use the "normal contents" of the cdrom after booting. I think DOS will call the normal cdrom drive X: then. About the whereabouts of shsurdrv and problems with the LiveCD caused by them, please ask Blair Campbell (email blairdude at gmail dot com) whether this is a known bug in FreeDOS 1.0 and if so, how you can fix it. Maybe he can just make a fixed ISO for you... Eric :-) PS: You talked about a 5 MB harddisk in the old days... Actually you can squeeze almost all of "FreeDOS base" on 3 diskettes today, including lots of documentation. I once booted Windows 3.1 from a tiny 256 MB USB stick, which felt weird as it originally lived on 40 MB HD and a few MB of RAM. Today you have gigs of USB and RAM... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
