At 11:51 PM 12/13/2004 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
config.sys can live without absolute paths (DEVIC=\DRIVERS\HIMEM.EXE),
and WinImage (www.winimage.com) can take diskette bootsector and transform them into bootsector for USB key, if I recall correctly.
No, it's goofier than that. If you load USBASPI.SYS through the flash drive itself, apparently the chain of communication with the original USB interface is broken. Flash drive then immediately fails while or immediately after loading DI1000DD.SYS, whether you use a drivespec or not. I have to manually enter COMMAND.COM arguments, endure a few A: a/r/f/i commands, an invalid A: prompt and then I can get to C: and use the flash drive as F: (the normal state of affairs when C: is the boot drive). Assuming DI1000DD.SYS didn't fail, otherwise F: is invalid.
If one of the other USB drivers out there which only uses one file worked with my flash drive, then I could probably use it and switch to the new flash drivespec within CONFIG.SYS for following lines.
On the plus side, using A: flash drive setup I can successfully load my mouse driver without USBASPI.SYS because the BIOS USB-ZIP driver doesn't mess things up.
There is one other strange thing. Sometime when I boot off the flash drive, my C: drive isn't detected and my D: and E: partitions move up to C: and D:. Which is generally annoying because C: holds all my FreeDOS files. I'm still in FreeDOS through the flash drive, but I can only access those FreeDOS files it holds, not the ones that were on C:. However, it might only do this for two or three reboots, then it does detect C: partition properly and everything is happy for a few boots, then back again. Maybe it's an Interaction with BootMagic, since an NTFS partition is hidden when FreeDOS boots. Or maybe it's general USB goofiness. Or who knows, a time-out value is too low?
Still, I must admit, having a fully bootable and runnable 256M FreeDOS system on a keychain is kind of neat. If your system supports that USB boot.
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