Hello Casey, Casey Bralla wrote: > > I'm trying to load my cd-rom under dosemu 1.0.2.0, running under SuSE 8.0. I > have loaded the cdrom.sys driver in config.sys, but when I try to run the > mscdex.exe program, I get the error "packed File is Corrupt", and my cd-rom > driver does not load. > Some of the old DOS proggies were "packed" in the manner of zip files to save space. These were then unpacked "on the fly" in memory just before they were executed. With this in mind, the possible solutions are: 1. Get a fresh copy. Your mscdex.exe may be infected or corrupted by a virus. The built-in unpacker would detect this and report that error. 2. Get a copy from a newer version of DOS. One bug of these old executable packers/unpackers was their inability to do their work if there was not enough free memory in the lower 64K. I think this was solved in later DOS versions. 3. You may want to load more programs into higher memory, therefore leaving more free memory for the unpacker to use. 4. Find an unpacker on the net and unpack the program. The resulting program would be bigger but would not need as much CPU or memory upon startup to run. 5. Use the free CDROM utilities from the FreeDOS project. http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/lsm2html.cgi?file=base/fdcdex.lsm or http://www.shsu.edu/~csc_jhm/shsucd14.zip
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