Be sure to check drive letters by actually accessing the files that you know are on them. If your system has an NTFS partition -- or ext2 or any other file system that FreeDOS can't read -- the drive letters will be off.
For example, my drive C: is NTFS and D: is FAT32 (both on a hard drive). When I boot FreeDOS with a FAT 32 thumbdrive in the slot, the NTFS partition doesn't show up, the hard drive FAT partition is now C:, and the thumb drive shows up as D:. Bruce On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Robins <arob...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Thanks cordata2 and Mark - no I've tried repeated reboots while ironing out > the kinks in my re-install, chiefly to get my autoexec.bat working nicely, > and while the BIOS detects the USB flash drive on bootup, no letter is > automatically assigned to it (although I must test the ports at the rear). > USB mouse loads automatically from the same front panel, however. I've used > a FAT32 format with my FreeDOS1.1 install on the internal SD card - it > seemed to be something the automatic install insisted on as I had problems > with an earlier FAT16 attempt - and the USB flash is 4GB, formatted to FAT32 > on my Linux system (I have no Windoze to speak of now in my home, and even > rawrite alternatives can be an issue). Thanks for the tip on 'rufus', but > the drive is only for shuttling data files between systems. I guess I will > try rewritable CD's for such a role "if pain persists", though I seem to > recall that older hardware don't always read the CDs so reliably. Good grief > - all my fallback floppies seem to be disintegrating too - trouble at mill, > Cheers > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Sent from my meager, humble desktop computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
