Hi! Bob> Sorry for the delay in reply Thank you for your ideas and help! No need to be sorry :) > 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. I have got DRDOS. Is it the same? Is OpenDOS = DRDOS? :) I typed in my web browser www.opendos.org and it delivered me to the "Unofficial Dr-DOS - OpenDOS page" Bob> I did learn this: A disk containing dm cannot be sysed if Bob> it's the current drive. The friend of mine told me he was able to make current HDD system/bootable. He used old Norton Utilities for DOS. And his DOS 6.22 with lost system files was successfully sysed. In my case (msdos7) after trying NU for DOS I got unbootable disk. All system files was lost. I am lucky - my HDD is PCMCIA. So I restore system on it simply by attaching it to the nearest win95 notebook with PCMCIA slot. Yes, I though about possibility of making my HDD bootable as DOS6/DRDOS in this way (I mean by attaching my PCMCIA HDD to any dos notebook). Unfortunately nobody from my friends has no notebook with PCMCIA slot support UNDER DOS :(. Bob> That's probably one of the reasons your install fails. Try Bob> it again, but make a ramdisk first. AFAIK, the size can be Bob> as little as 64K, maybe a lot less. Let's say the ramdisk is Bob> e:. Don't put anything on the ramdisk. It's just there so Bob> that it can be the current drive, rather than that being the Bob> hard drive. Let's say the install is called setup.exe and it Bob> and associated files are in c:\install\. Make the ramdisk. I used MS ramdrive to create 100 kb ramdisk Bob> The process after setting up the ramdrive: C:\>>cd \install C:\INSTALL\>>e: E:\>>c:\install\setup Bob> Might just work. I haven't tried it. I'm looking at other Bob> ways right now, but I'm pretty busy so it may take a while. Bob> I'll let you know if I find anything. I was not successful. Installation procedure was finished without any probs. But after rebooting I got DOS7 aain!!! :( Any more ideas? It looks like this list does not like MCP's :)))) I made such a conclusion from the fact: only Bob is trying to generate ideas ;)) Thank you again, Bob! Best regards, Nikolay Volosevich MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
