Hi Tomas,
if you want to use DOS directories to be visible as drives, if your install program refuses to open subdirectories, you can indeed explore ASSIGN and its relatives: http://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/assign.htm (maps drive letters to other drive letters) http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/subst.htm (gives a directory a drive letter) http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/join.htm (I do not remember the use case of that) http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/swsubst.htm (all of the above, with some complex options?) The most versatile, but also the most confusing, is the actual swsubst implementation. I am not even sure if the three others are more than wrappers which call swsubst? However, you might be able to just copy the contents of ALL floppies into ONE directory or drive: As long as no name clashes exist, this lets you ignore all requests to change disks, because all files already are there in the same "floppy" :-) You can also consider using ramdisks to put the files in the root directory of a drive without having to rely on any extra tools such as swsubst and related. Several ramdisks in the FreeDOS distro can be loaded at the command prompt, which is more convenient than having to edit config or autoexec or having to use devaload :-) Regards, Eric > ... PC with Freedos as OS, and a USB drive with a series of > directories, each containing the files from one floppy of a > multi-floppy program distribution, so that e.g. there is an > INSTALL on the first floppy, and at some point it is going to say > please insert floppy 2, then is there some way to install this? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
