Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-03 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Aug 2, 2022, at 8:14 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > > To be a bit more productive than just complaining, how about this? > > /* Automatically partition the selected hard drive */ > void Automatically_Partition_Hard_Drive() > > could be patched using: > >> --- FDISKIO.C.bak

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! To be a bit more productive than just complaining, how about this? /* Automatically partition the selected hard drive */ void Automatically_Partition_Hard_Drive() could be patched using: --- FDISKIO.C.bak 2022-08-03 02:10:06.914145715 +0200 +++ FDISKIO.C 2022-08-03

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! The Installer has NO way to tell FDISK to auto partition the drive as a single partition. FDISK automatically breaks it into 2GB sections. If there was a way to tell FDISK just use the entire drive, the installer would have it create a single large FAT32 partition. Or, possible ask if

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Aug 2, 2022, at 6:26 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > A word to the install wizard app, if it were a person: > > That was a great way of shooting yourself in the foot :-D > > Running out of drive letters by trying to avoid FAT32. In 2022. I’m getting kind of tired of explaining this… But, he

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr tauro via Freedos-user, am Mittwoch, 3. August 2022 um 00:18 schrieben Sie: >> Apparently on your system the letters D:-G: are already assigned to >> something (like maybe some USB drives or some extra partitions on the hard >> drive(s)?). >> >> You can try seeing if anything

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Thank you for your answer Bret, it came in just as I figured out by what was the problem. I installed FreeDOS using the LiveCD, which also partitioned my disk and formatted the C drive... I don't know if the warning is normal, but from what I could check, the FreeDOS LiveCD installer

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread tauro via Freedos-user
Apparently on your system the letters D:-G: are already assigned to something (like maybe some USB drives or some extra partitions on the hard drive(s)?). You can try seeing if anything exists on the D:-G: drives (e.g., by doing a "DIR D:") and see if you can figure out what's going on.

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Bret Johnson
> I haven't been able to change the drive letter for the CD drive, no > matter how hard I try, it always defaults to the letter H: Do you have a LASTDRIVE= line in your CONFIG.SYS (or FDCONFIG.SYS) file? If so, what is it? > It was a little hard for me to unravel cdrom.bat to make sense of >

[Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-01 Thread tauro via Freedos-user
Hello everybody, I'm new to FreeDOS, and I really like how it combines lots of free DOS software in a single distro, making it more accessible and friendly for the user. The documentation is very complete and software such as FDIMPLES has great potential. My problem: I haven't been able to