Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:19:55 -0800 From: "Alan S." Subject: Re: DRDOS 7.04/7.05 kernel files. Oh My! To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <3A6DF57B.86956DE7@cornell.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3A6CB908 DOT 13FE2A44 AT cornell DOT edu> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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 Calders 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! Alan S. 1-23-2001 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!]