Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/23/17:58:52
In the hope that Ontrack's "bulk buying" the Caldera DRDOS boot files
for their utility disks gives Ontrack more clout with Caldera/Lineo than
have ordinary consumers, I filed a bug report with Ontrack Tech Support
to the effect that their Rescue Disk does not support DOS's RENAME
command [makes for a great Rescue Disk, right?]
Alan S.
1-23-2001
On 1-23-2001, "Alan S." wrote:
>
> Ok, so adding the XBIOS driver did NOT solve the "rename file
> problem" [Operating System error number 17] which afflicts IBMDOS.COM
> version 7.04. Too bad, I wanted to use DRDOS [through the Loader] as
> a way to replace the 'Boot to REAL DOS' option lost when I upgraded
> to WinMe.
>
> Actually I can't believe that Caldera didn't jump into the WinMe
> 'Boot to REAL DOS' "add-on" niche market after Millennium was
> released--even if it didn't generate much revenue, it would have
> generated publicity for Caldera--and tweaked MS's nose! But Caldera
> would have had to fix up all FAT32 processing--including
> boot_from_FAT32--using only the three kernel files. Plus we don't
> know what the Caldera/MS settlement said about DRDOS sales &
> marketing... So much for free competition!
On 1-22-2001, "Alan S." wrote:
>
> Like others in this NG, I tried replacing the DRDOS 7.03 kernel files
> with the 7.04/7.05 kernel files -- and when I tried to change [e.g.]
> AUTOEXEC.BAT, I got the same "Operating System error number 17 File -
> c:\autoexec.bat" message I have seen mentioned elsewhere on the net.
>
> However, I just noticed the Ontrack Fix-It Utilities 3.0 Rescue Disk
> is based on the DRDOS 7.04/7.05 kernel [no surprise there,] and I see
> the AUTOEXEC.BAT runs a program XBIOS -- for which the runtime banner
> description is "Hard Disk INT 13H Device Driver". Does anyone know
> if the inclusion of this driver resolves any of the DRDOS 7.0x kernel
> problems? [NOT "can't boot from FAT32" obviously AND unfortunately!]
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