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starting from scratch
Name: tony Date: September 2, 2002 at 13:31:11 Pacific
Comment:
first i install 6.22 then i install 3.1 then i install cd driver, but get message:not enough drive letters available
Name: Dan Penny Date: September 2, 2002 at 15:31:55 Pacific
Reply:
Look in your c:\config.sys for an entry that says;
lastdrive=c
If found, change it to a higher letter.
Is your cd driver loading OK, and mscdex.exe too in autoexec.bat?
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: September 3, 2002 at 01:18:45 Pacific
Reply:
I believe the default lastdrive letter is E - and the lowest you could set it to would be D (to save a few bytes of memory). Does sound like you need to set lastdrive=f or higher, depending on your system. Are you running drvspace? It has its own lastdrive setting in (I think) drvspace.ini
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