Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:16127 comp.sys.tandy:783 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!gatech!uflorida!novavax!potpourri!pkopp From: pkopp@potpourri.UUCP (Paul Kopp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Re: command.com in RAM drive... Message-ID: <1170@potpourri.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 19:38:30 GMT References: <1653@hubcap.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: na Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL Lines: 36 in article <1653@hubcap.UUCP>, oolidjr@hubcap.UUCP (Joe Moll) says: > Xref: gould comp.sys.ibm.pc:12923 comp.sys.tandy:640 >>>From article <26530@clyde.ATT.COM>, by meb@floyd.ATT.COM: > Eric Wickberg writes in responce ... >>From: eric@umb.umb.edu (Eric Wickberg) >>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc [ all kinds of stuff deleted about command.com on a ram disk.] I tried this too. Well, actually, I was trying to move command.com out of my root directory (same kind of thing). To move this file, I had to do TWO things. 1) set COMSPEC = c:\dos\command.com <---- in autoexec.bat and 2) command = c:\dos\command.com /p <---- in config.sys (from memory; I'm pretty sure this is right. Everything worked fine until I tried to format a floppy with the sys option (format a:/s). I kept getting prompted to place a disk with command.com in drive a:. I found the solution to this problem. It seems that in order to format a floppy with the "sys" option, the two hidden files (msdos.sys and io.sys) needed to be in the same directory pointed to by the above statements. After I copied the two files over, everything worked "as advertised." Now I'm not sure (because I haven't tried it), but you're probably going to run into the same problem when you move command.com to a ram disk. ------------------------------------- Paul Kopp The opinions (if any) expressed Gould Inc., Computer Systems Division are my own. Fort Lauderdale, Florida Mail paths?, oh yea mail paths: ...!{sun,uunet,pur-ee,brl-bmd}!gould!pkopp ...!{ihnp4!codas,allegra}!novavax!gould!pkopp