On 9/18/22 12:58, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 9/18/2022 10:30 AM, Glenn Holmer via Freedos-user wrote:
>> I installed FreeDOS 1.3 on a machine about ten years old. It
>> successfully read the DVD during installation, but doesn't recognize it
>> afterward when booted.
>>
>> How can I diagnose this?
>
> Make sure you have the CD/DVD-ROM driver and a MSCDEX equivalent loaded
> on startup. This might be happening during the installer, but might be
> missing out of config.sys and autoexec.bat in your installed version...

There's a script that gets called from FDAUTO that tries several drivers
-- why wouldn't that work? And why did it work during install?

Are you saying I should throw out that script and load the driver
manually? How do I know which driver to use and where it's found?

--
Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
"After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."




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