[PLUG] SATA II, mdadm and soft power off

[Galen Seitz]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Well, I finally managed to get my thumb drive bootable and the computer
> boots to it. However, I'm having a problem with FreeDOS finding the
> flash utility. When I put the USB stick in my Feisty laptop Nautilus
> pops up a window and I can see the directory m613z15 and the five files
> inside it. When I use the USB stick to boot the new desktop I get an A:
> \ prompt, but I can't figure out how to see the folder. In fact there
> are a bunch of other files on the USB stick (old homeworks and stuff),
> and all DOS sees is its own files. I think I need to mount the root of
> the USB FAT32 in DOS, but I can't figure out how to do that.
> 
> Off to google on FreeDOS and see if I can find instructions.

"After booting from the drive, A: is a ramdisk version of the freedos 
image file.  Any writes to A: will be lost on a reboot.  C: is the 
filesystem on the USB drive."

So to see the files on the USB drive, enter 'cd c:', or just 'c:' to 
change your working directory, then enter 'dir'.

galen