Rugxulo said the following at 12/03/2010 05:22 PM :
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/3/10, D. R. Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm running the LiveCD (fdbasews.iso).
> 

> 
>> (In other words: where on the C: drive does the live CD look to see if
>> there's an autoexec.bat file that it needs to execute?)
> 
> Typically, C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT is what you want. But sometimes FreeDOS
> renames it FDAUTO.BAT, which is allowed in FDCONFIG.SYS (loaded if
> CONFIG.SYS not found) in SHELL via /P:FDAUTO.BAT.
> 

> Long story short:  check your root for (FD)CONFIG.SYS and see what
> SHELL= says.    ;-)

Thank you very much. However, there still is a problem.

1. The "root" is a:.
2. There is an a:\fdconfig.sys.
3. Inside the fdconfig.sys file, the SHELL command points to:
   a:\freedos\fdauto.bat
4. So I edited a:\freedos\fdauto.bat to include the directories I want in
the path.

At this point I thought that everything was as I wanted. but then I
discovered that when I reboot, the a:\freedos\fdauto.bat goes back to its
initial state (i.e., it lost the changes I had made prior to the reboot).

I checked this again, and indeed the a:\freedos\fdauto.bat file always
reverts to its unedited state on reboot.

So the file I'm supposed to edit seems like it can't be
a:\freedos\fdauto.bat; but I'm back to my original situation now, still
wondering which is the right file I should edit so that the PATH is as I
want it.

Maybe I misunderstood something in your instructions, but I don't think so.

  Doc

PS As you point out, I can always change the PATH manually, but that is
error prone and something I'm likely to forget to do at some point. It
would be much more convenient to have the PATH set as I want it as part of
the boot sequence.

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