I want to thank all of you for helping me try and get FreeDos to load all the way especially Eric since I have been a thorn in his side for a while so thanks Eric for putting up with me.<BG> I do get the kernel to load and can use the question mark to see the programs that did load. It's hard for me to do much since I don't have the use of my mouse or the printer and I have finally found the other night and old Norton System works 3 1/2 inch disk that had an editor their editor call diskedit. I was looking for a floppy that had edit on it and will again look for it but I believe I can use diskedit to edit the fdauto.bat file. I got started trying to load FreeDos because one of the programs I love uses FreeDos and it's called Spin Rite v6.0. You know he has the NFTS file system working in Spin Rite v6.0 since it will check FAT and New File technology also so it would be nice if we could get Steve I think the author is Steve but any way it would be nice if he would share the NFTS file system with other users in the FreeDos community. Not being a programmer and not having any tools since FreeDos refuses to laod all the way for me, I will again load what I can of FreeDos and try an step thru the fdauto.bat and see if indeed it is that statement with the X in it that keeps shsurdrv from loading. I do know Eric, because I looked on the CD after I loaed the kernel of FreeDos that shsurdrv is in the A:\fdos\bin\shsurdrv.exe so I think and I will try changing the X to A: and see if this will get the shsurdrv to load it maybe that simple. For what ever reason and you guys would know FreeDos renamed my CD rom drive that I load FreeDos from to A: drive and my floppy 3 1/2 inch drive is now my B: drive which doesn't hurt a thing/ I can remember having a full featured PC with a 5 meg byte drive and that was huge at the time so my CD rom drive is a whole bigger than that. Back then all programs were programmed in assembly so they weren't nor did they have to be big.
Ron Spruell Sr. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Spruell Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:17 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] how to install in Freedos Ron Said > screen with 1 2 or 3 selecting EMM386 with himem and I selected 3 Eric said > I hope this is the choice -without- emm386. Strange, my fdbasecd only contains 1 "install" / 2 "safe mode"...? Ah now I understand options 3 4 and 5 are livecd and fdbasecd is too small so it does not contain the livecd :-). Ron Said > No I selected the 3 option which includes Himem.sys and EMM386 The statement below send me to nocd when it doesn't find shsurdrv.exe in that directory > If not exist X:\Fdos\bin\shsurdrv.exe goto nocd Eric said> Hmm interesting I think X: is the cdrom drive letter but shsurdrv is in the "odin" directory, not in "fdos"...? Blair should be able to answer this... Maybe it is at the right place in the larger CDs, I only have the small fdbasecd here... Ron Said> That is exactly what is in the fdauto.bet I also was wondering what the X meant. I used an old Norton's Windows 95 recovery 3 1/2 inch floppy so that I had a way to look. I used their editdisk that was on the Floppy disk. That's what is on the CD in the fdauto.bat on the CD then it must be going to nocd and then the nest thing that comes up while booting is Echo There is no CD Rom or the wrong CD-ROM if I press escape then it boots but immediately drops to the A prompt because it sends it to END. > As you said I guess said I need that file shurdrv on the floopy I > guess to make it work. Can you are someone attach it... Eric said> It already is on the CD, but in another directory. Blair?? Ron said> You are right eric it is in the BIN directory don't know why it didn't pick it up and run it maybe something to do with the X: Maybe I should try and change it to A: because that's what it named my CD rom drive. Ron Said> ... I don't see the message LiveCD or anything on the screen because it drops to end statement it is in fdauto.bat so I think I'm not booting all of FreeDos. At the least I'm not running shsurdrv.exe Eric said > Well there should be something like: for %%X in ( 3 4 5 ) do if "%config%"=="%%X" goto livecd Ron Said > This statement is more than likely in fdauto.bat but I never get there because it drops to end when it doesn't find shsurdrv.exe Eric PS: Please answer on the list again, I just sent you some intermediate information off-list so you or Blair can add more details and then continue the discussion on the list :-). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
