Yes, It does print the IP and MAC. Good info. I'll explore a little more using your comments.
Many thanks, Scott -----Original Message----- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:52 AM To: Scott Card Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Unattended] Cd boot error "Scott Card" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I boot from the stock 2.4 CD to el90x driver. Just past OS > selection I get the following error: > > Fdisk /info /tech > a:\temp.txt failed, status 3 ... > > Any ideas? Does it print out the IP address and MAC address? If so, the problem is probably with the fdisk command itself (as opposed to writing the temp file). What happens if you run "fdisk /info /tech" by hand after the error? I think I have seen something similar, where fdisk considers the CD-ROM to be drive 1 (which is its default). So try "fdisk /info /tech 2" and see what that does. I do not have any good solution for this, other than to use a floppy or PXE boot instead. Hm. I suppose install.pl could "hunt" for the right drive by running fdisk repeatedly ("fdisk /info 1", "fdisk /info 2", and so on) until it did not get an error. But this is arguably a bug in FreeDOS fdisk; it should probably skip CD-ROM drives automatically. - Pat
