Re: OT: DOS booting

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> It also, on my system,
> won't run Xy. It begins to load, then issues an EMM386.EXE
> error--something about a fault in device driver or program (must be the
> program: Xy), and reports Exception 6: invalid Opcode.

That sounds more as if you haven't loaded EMM386.exe
(to set aside Expanded RAM) in CONFIG.SYs. IIRC, you
have to have a command
device=emm386.sys
and then some further parameter, which I could look up
at the office, where we still have a couple of MD-DOS
books lying about (Novell DOS, which is the last DOS I
used, had a different upper memory manager).

But if you cannot WRITE to your hard drive, it won't
work, because Xy needs to be able to write overflow
files. Unless you can route them to the USB drive.
And if, as you say, your hard drive is NTFS I'm
surprised DOS can even SEE it, never mind not write to
it. (Interestingly, W9x can see NTFS drives over a
network; I suppose the networking protocols do some
kind of translation.)

--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx