Eric,
The case where everything works would be just a single,primary partition of
the harddisk;there is nothing on the
disk yet; then load from fdbase cd, selecting from it's install options
drive 'c' of course. The first time you boot
the fdos,the cdrom will come out on 'd' drive. Now, make the directory for
DOSUSB, insert a device line in
fdconfig.sys(basically calling a sys file in DOSUSB), then if you execute
DOSUSB.COM, the usb deal will toggle
on;in fact, repeated executions of DOSUSB will toggle the usb on and off. At
any rate, with usb toggled on, the
cdrom gets moved to 'e', and DOSUSB gets the 'd' letter; remember, this is
the elementary configuration with
only the one partition. In fact, even if you logical partition the
harddrive,(if I recall) both the cd and usb simply
get bumped up to the first two drive letters unused by the disk partitions.
This applies *so long as fdos is installed
to the 'c' partition*. The trouble starts when you instead install fdos to,
say, 'd' or 'e' partition. Perhaps the most
telling thing is that even absent the DOSUSB, the fdos never seems to 'boot'
normally from any drive letter but
'c'; You get part of the boot 'splash' like "mouse installed at ps2" etc.
but the '123?' menu options never appear,
and I refer here to executing the autoexec.bat associated with the
fdconfig.sys; this despite the fact that if installed
to a particular drive letter, the autoexec and fdconfig files both appear to
be properly associated to the logical
drive to which fdos was installed. Even tried your suggestion of putting the
fdconfig into 'c' drive, but then the
*threading together* of them is not so obvious. It almost appears that the
fdos is as turf concious as the w98,
and neither wants to budge!. By the way, in everything I had tried, I always
searched for the cd and/or usb
drives all the way up through the alphabet to 'z'; when they're not there,
they're really not there. kurt,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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