Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-11 Thread Florian Xaver
Mh...the USB HD is primary...any chance to configurate FreeDOS, so that the USB drive IS NOT drive C:, D: instead? Bye Norbert Remmel wrote: That works for all newer bioses that have usb boot support. Rgds Norbert. Florian Xaver schrieb: Hi again, the BIOS also mounts my extern

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-11 Thread Norbert Remmel
Florian Xaver schrieb: Mh...the USB HD is primary...any chance to configurate FreeDOS, so that the USB drive IS NOT drive C:, D: instead? I think the drive you are booting from is always set to C by dos kernel and you can nothing do about that. Imagine you are using your usb harddisk as

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-11 Thread Florian Xaver
I think the drive you are booting from is always set to C by dos kernel and you can nothing do about that. Imagine you are using your usb harddisk as boot device on another computer. You always would have to change the drive letters used in your config.sys and autoexec.bat prior to booting.

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Riebisch
Florian Xaver wrote: Mh...the USB HD is primary...any chance to configurate FreeDOS, so that the USB drive IS NOT drive C:, D: instead? Did you try our http://www.bttr-software.de/products/drvexch/ ? But I don't know, if it works with FreeDOS or DR-DOS. ;-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Июл-2006 10:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Xaver) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: FX Mh...the USB HD is primary...any chance to configurate FreeDOS, so that FX the USB drive IS NOT drive C:, D: instead? After boot, you may use utilities (like sswap.exe from Stacker),

Re: [Freedos-user] Complete Novice Needs Help (Elf Wizard)

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Riebisch
Giorgos wrote: I hope that helps. Sorry again for delayed responceand for loosing the original text!!! :-( You forgot the last sorry for your crappy HTML mail. Please turn that off for the next time! Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-user] Complete Novice Needs Help (Elf Wizard)

2006-07-11 Thread Giorgos
Hi, :-) First of all, I wish to apologise you for the (about3-4 days) delayed responce. Unfortunately, due to a computer crash (because of my error) I had to restore my backups, so I was off-line for a while. Also I 've lost the original text to copy here. Sorry!!! :-( To the point now: *

[Freedos-user] how much space for freedos

2006-07-11 Thread Jethro Tull
I would like to install freedos in dual boot mode with windows XP, but what's amazing is that nowhere on the official site of freedos I could find the space needed. I found on some odd web site by googling that there was need of at least 3MB, but I prefer some more secure source. I downloaded

Re: [Freedos-user] how much space for freedos

2006-07-11 Thread Blair Campbell
I believe that around 7 MB is sufficient for the BASE programs, but depending on how many other things you want to install, you will need more. On 7/11/06, Jethro Tull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to install freedos in dual boot mode with windows XP, but what's amazing is that nowhere