Well I have made a little bit of progress in my battle with getting multpile OS's on my PC110...
I disabled the PCMCIA altogether from BIOS....
That seems to have solved the Drive numbering/lettering thing & has left me with the abilitiy to use the Type III drive as a 2nd HDD w/no Drivers required (super!!!)...
So my BIOS boot up sequence now looks like this....
1=Floppy
2=HDD1
Thats it...
PC110 will boot into System Commander no matter if drive is in or out of PCMCIA slot.... Good.
If I have the Type III drive in System Commander will give me the option to Boot LINUX as well.... Good.
Previously before this I would boot from my Type III & be able to select WIN95 from System commander Menu, but then couldn't boot LINUX or anything on the Flash ROM , now I cannot boot WIN95...
I know I am getting close to resolving this issue....
The problem now is:
I have wiped my "D:\" drive with the intention of re-installing WIN95 on it (148MB)...
I can boot up into PCDOS from Flash Rom, it will load my Parallel CD-ROM drivers & allow me to access my WIN95 CD (as well as my 148MB d:\ drive) , so When I run Setup for WIN95 installation I tell it I want to install it to D:\WINDOWS.. Problem now is, WIN95 Dies mid-setup because it wants to write about 2+ MB of data on the bootable C:\ drive, well, I don;t have that much space nor would I wanna give it to WIN 95... I want the entire WIN95 system on Drive D:\ with only the required boot files on Drive C:\ (4 MB Flash Rom) if needed at all... I could care less if System Commander doesnt give me a WIN95 option when the Type III drive is NOT in... So is there a switch for Win95's SETUP to tell it that I want to install to the D:\ drive, not the C:\ drive....???
Now, if I re-Config BIOS to boot up PCMCIA first , then my Type III becomes Drive C:\ & I can run a succesful install of WIN95, and that will make my Type III bootable to WIN95, problem is then if I switch the BIOS back to booting from HDD1 (Flash ROM) although I can getinto my D:\ drive (148MB) and force it to boot WIN95, it will crash giving me a VFAT error, since I have of course re-arranged the lettering of the drive where boot files reside...Or something...
Can any body who can make sense of what I am trying to do provide any suggestions???
Sounds like i need to do some System Commander tweaking maybe??? Tell it where to find WIN95 boot files (d:\windows\command.com) ?
Maybe Edit WIN95 Registry to tell it that D:\ is the bottable drive?
Again the scenario (for now) looks like this:
I have a 20MB PC110.
BIOS boot up sequence is : 1=Floppy, 2=HDD1.
(c:\) 4 MB Flash ROM is PC/JDOS w/ a couple Comm utilities for use with Modem & a PC Card.
System commander is loaded on 4MB Flash ROM to provide acces to multiple OS's (duhh...)
(d:\) 148 MB of my Type III PCMCIA drive is reserved for WIN95...
Remaining 100MB of Type III drive is for RH LINUX 4.2 (10MB Swap, 90MB System <--- is this OK? Can I run X-windows???)
When the Type III drive is "IN" I want to be able to Select either LINUX,PCDOS or WIN95 from System Commander...
When the Type III drive is "OUT" PCDOS/JDOS will be the only selectable OS (of course)...
Sorry for being a pest with this one, but I know it can be done, just a matter of 'how'.... AND, when accomplished this just increases the awsomeness of the PC110...
Thanks to all who help!!!!
josh
jg nospam at thegrid.net
PS: yeah, you are right... When I finally get a CF Flash Card (Hmmm, 8, 15 or 30Mb?) , I will do it all over again!!!!