Erik-jan.Vens@samba.acs.unc.edu (Erik-jan Vens) (11/15/90)
Hi, I bought ATonce a week ago and had a friend (who is doing this professionaly) build it into my 1040ST. I also installed 3Meg of X-tra RAM. The RAM seems to be OK. I had the CheckRAM program run all night and it didn't encounter problems. But, I am having problems with ATonce. Booting from floppy works OK. But it doesn't seem to work with my harddisk. I have partitioned my harddisk (MegaFile 60) in 6 partitions: 3 times 1 small and 1 big partition. The small ones being 'boot partitions' (one for TOS, one for DOS and one for MINIX), the big ones 'work partitions'. Now you can configure ATonce to recognize any partition as C:. And since E: and F: are my DOS disks, I have configured E: to be DOS' C:. So far, so good. I boot PC-DOS 3.30 from floppie. I now have to make the DOS' C: drive bootable, so I do a FORMAT C:/S which should do the trick. It starts formatting then asks for a DOS system disk in drive A: to install COMMAND.COM (and IBMBIO I guess). These are present on the disk when I check. Now I changedir to C: and I make a directory SYS and SYS\TOOLS. I copy all DOS commands to SYS and the ATonce specific files to SYS\TOOLS. And now the trouble begins. The directory listing of SYS contains noise: strange characters etc. So, if I change back to TOS and take a look at the directory, it looks pretty messy. (You know the: +=8*-3%$ bytes used in 1676453 items). If I make the system clean, then repeat the procedures, but fill the directories under TOS (that should give the same result), I get the same trouble. Has anyone encountered such a problem before? How should I proceed? Is it the DOS I am using? Maybe it should be not PCDOS but MSDOS? I do not know how the BIOS is handled under ATonce. Erik-Jan. Vens@Rug.NL