Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.4 $; site uiucuxc Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!authorplaceholder From: hamilton@uiucuxc.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: pc-dos 3.1 Message-ID: <21900056@uiucuxc> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 19:10:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.21900056 Posted: Wed Jul 3 19:10:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:40:22 EDT References: <2436@topaz.ARPA> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:topaz.ARPA:-243600:uiucuxc:21900056:000:1328 Nf-From: uiucuxc.Uiuc.ARPA!hamilton Jul 3 18:10:00 1985 /* Written 6:21 pm Jun 28, 1985 by sommers@topaz.ARPA in uiucuxc:net.micro.pc */ /* ---------- "pc-dos 3.1" ---------- */ I just tried to bring PC-DOS 3.1 up on my AT. ... I keep getting an error that there is not enough room on the system disk to bring the system up. This has to be a crock, I deleted until I had at least a meg of space. Does anybody have a fix so that I can update? -- liz sommers /* End of text from uiucuxc:net.micro.pc */ i think what DOS is complaining about is the occupation of the special directory slots reserved for ibmbio.com and ibmdos.com. for example, if you: format a:/v ;volume label in root directory sys a: ;slot where ibmbio.com belongs you'll get the same error message. on the other hand, format a:/s sys a: doesn't complain; i wonder if versions are being compared? anyhow, you could try using the CHMOD syscall to remove the readonly/hidden/system attributes from ibmbio.com and ibmdos.com so you can delete them and re-install from your 3.1 disk. on a related note, one of my colleagues wanted to "sample" 3.1, so he installed "borrowed" copies of ibm???.com and command.com on his XT. thereafter, his old command.com and chkdsk.com (from DOS 2.11?) would abort with a "wrong version of DOS" message. wayne ({decvax,ucbvax}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!)hamilton