Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:28:51 -0800
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From: stephen AT silcom DOT com (Stephen Stone)
Subject: [opendos-support] DriveSpace and OpenDOS installation
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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