Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/19/01:56:46
I had no problems installing OpenDOS on my computer which has been run with
NovellDOS 7 since 1993. When asked to install OpenDOS by the director of a
nonprofit on a computer running MSDOS 6.22 with DriveSpace, I found the
installation failed. The host drive which would have become H: remained C:
with no access to the compressed working drive. A message appeared asking
for the location of command.com. I SYSed the MSDOS files back to the root
drive and renamed the old config and autoexec back to operation.
Is the installation a problem because the DriveSpace driver is called by the
IO.SYS before DOS?
Is there a workaround? I certainly would like to replace the MSDOS product
when someone indicates a strong interest in doing so -- but to reconfigure
disk compression . . . . a big job to uncompress, etc.
/Stephen Stone
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