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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

> > Why does it matter where "DOS" is?
> 
> BL3 needs to find the baslin directory on your DOS drive.  3.00 looked
> for it only on /dev/hda1 (the normal location for C:).  However, DrDOS
> puts C: somewhere else (/dev/hda4 or /dev/hda3 apparently).  So, 3.01
> now looks on several different partitions for \baslin.  But I'm not
> sure it actually works on those other partitions because I haven't
> tested it myself.  Hopefully, some users with DOS partitions on hda2,
> hda3, hda4, hdb1, hdc1 or hdd1 will try it on those and tell us it if
> works. 

Thanks,  Steven.

So we just need to put the \baslin directory on the root of any DOS-
format logical drive (as long as it's hda2, hda3, hda4, hdb1, hdc1 or 
hdd1)?  It doesn't have to be the drive the computer boots from?

Unfortunately, this computer has DOS/Windows on a primary "C:" drive, but 
the "D:" drive is in an extended partition, and Linux would see it as 
/hda5.

On the other physical drive, the DOS logical drives are all in an 
extended partition, so would be /hdb6 and /hdb7, I think.