On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:47:39 +0500, azazello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List! > Bob> Start fdisk. Choose to view partitions. Make sure the > Bob> partition we're talking about is some form of FAT16 and > Bob> _not_ FAT32. > Yes, the partition is FAT16 > Bob> I assume you have an install set for DR-DOS. If I'm right, > Bob> run install and choose the "make a bootable disk" option. > Bob> Make sure that "sys" gets copied to it. > Hey, not so quick :)))) I have NO floppy drive :( > Any more ideas about making hdd bootable in dos other than dos7? > Ok, if no ideas, I will try to explain what for I need that dos6 > or drdos. I'd like to install win3.1 on my PC, but after > installing and rebooting I got the message: "System halted. Press > Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot". > If it is impossible to make disk bootable as dos6 or drdos how > I may to avoid that message? Sorry for the delay in reply, I was checking and testing a few things. As a result of that experience, I shall henceforth refer to Win95 and up as "DOS-MINUS", or "dm" for short. I keep an open partition on my HD just for intallation test purposes. I grabbed a win95 boot disk and sysed that part after a FAT16 format. Then I downloaded OpenDOS 7.01. Wish I could give you a how-to here, but it was an utter failure. I did learn this: A disk containing dm cannot be sysed if it's the current drive. That's probably one of the reasons your install fails. Try it again, but make a ramdisk first. AFAIK, the size can be as little as 64K, maybe a lot less. Let's say the ramdisk is e:. Don't put anything on the ramdisk. It's just there so that it can be the current drive, rather than that being the hard drive. Let's say the install is called setup.exe and it and associated files are in c:\install\. Make the ramdisk. If you don't have a utility to do that, ftp://ftp.simtel.net:21/simtelnet/msdos/ramdisk/fu_rd19i.zip will do fine. Assuming you have XMS, use xmsdsk from that package. The process after setting up the ramdrive: C:\>cd \install C:\INSTALL\>e: E:\>c:\install\setup Might just work. I haven't tried it. I'm looking at other ways right now, but I'm pretty busy so it may take a while. I'll let you know if I find anything. Bob Starts April 1, 2001 -- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
