On 9 Jul 03, at 23:15, Kevin Sexton wrote:
Ok, my floppy is external USB, and apparently not bootable, I got freeDos, it worked from CD, but couldn't see the floppy either. I added fractint to the CD, and it stopped booting. :( I was thinking I could at least test with the CD booted Dos, using the ramdisk A: that appears to be loaded by freeDos. But now I just get straight into windows, I must have somehow broken the bootable CD by adding files to it. I'm going to try to update Roxio,
You're using Roxio under WindowsXP? Not a good combo - bugs that can corrupt data CDs. Instead of updating Roxio, buy Nero Burning ROM.
since it keeps thinking my drive is busy, and see if the other software I used could be the problem, but it's looking like the only way I'm going to get anything even tested is by getting a Dos or linux partition.
Download one of the many Linux CDs that provide live file systems (boot and run off of the CD). My favorite is Knoppix <http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index- en.html>, finds and supports all kinds of weird peripherals, I'm sure it could find your USB floppy drive. Then you could try using BOCHS or DOSEMU to run DOS and Fractint. Or you could download XFractint and try that under Linux instead. Of course, that might not help you identify the cause of the problem under Windows ... David gnome@hawaii.rr.com