Hi, On 12/3/10, D. R. Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Rugxulo said the following at 12/03/2010 05:22 PM : >> >> On 12/3/10, D. R. Evans <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm running the LiveCD (fdbasews.iso). >> >> Long story short: check your root for (FD)CONFIG.SYS and see what >> SHELL= says. ;-) > > 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).
Right. > I checked this again, and indeed the a:\freedos\fdauto.bat file always > reverts to its unedited state on reboot. That's because it's an immutable liveCD. It's not as simple as just edit and reboot (sadly). > 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. Like I said, I forget exactly what's going on in this exact specific case, but obviously "a:\" here is a fake drive, most like a RAM disk. > 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. You'll have to remix / remaster / reburn / etc. the .iso itself once you modify it. The liveCD itself won't change between sessions, even if you try to manually edit it. This is a restriction of the format itself, a hardware restriction, not a DOS flaw nor something you can fix in such a simple way. In other words, in a true hardware install (with a r/w drive such as HD or FD) you can edit anything you like. But for a CD, the only way is to reburn it after creating a modified .iso (e.g. using mkisofs.exe: http://alexfru.narod.ru/os/fat/fat.html ). Honestly, it might be easier to just use QEMU or VirtualBox or Bochs with a fake HD install (unless whatever app you're trying to run really needs to run natively). Sorry. :-/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
