Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>Hello Image Makers
>
>     I am having trouble creating a floppy image file that I
>place on a CD and then get the CD to boot into Caldera's
>DR DOS 7.03.
>
>     When I boot my tower computer to PC DOS 7, I can't seem
>to make a good image file while booted to eCS, "raread" won't
run in DOS
>because it is a 32-bit program.
>
>     "rareadb" won't run either, from my perspective.  It is
>suppose to be a 16-bit DOS program.  However, it spits this
>error message at me.
>
>      "rareadb:  cannot get device details for A:, rc = 22"
>
>     DOS itself has no problems with using either of the floppy drives. 
>When "rareadb" is run, no signal is ever sent to a floppy
drive.  No light
>flashes, no sound is ever emitted from any mechanical action, NOTHING.
>

Hi Don,

With you mentioning TWO floppy drives [A: B:, I assume], I hope that you 
are not expecting rareadb.exe to be working with the B: drive! It's only 
named that way to differentiate it from RAREAD.EXE!

IOW did you use your B: drive whilst creating the floppy from eCS??

-- 
Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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