Ultimate Boot CD

Have not been able to try mounting the cdrom manually. The laptop that was the subject of my post is very much a work in progress, lacking a functioning hard drive caddy. Since upgrading the cpu and swapping the fdd, the cdrom is currently not being recognised.

I'll try your suggestions. In the meantime, I can report that the disk functions correctly in my primary desktop. No problem at all in getting directly to Aida16, which uses FreeDOS.

It mounts the A: drive (which doesn't work). I can get to the A: prompt. from the text that scrolls by: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM Device Driver etc. CDROM drive #0 found on 170h port master device, v1E17 CDROM: Could not find "A:\lib\shsucdx.cab or A:\lib\mscdx.cab CDROM: Aborted... Then it proceeds to ...

I think I already tried T:
But I tried it again, and the error msg is: "Invalid drive T:."

I assumed that Q was the cdrom on this machine.

Just tried:

Q:\>dosapps\aida16\startup.bat

and got "Bad command or filename."
A lot of command lines run by in Freedos, many of them, and the last bunch, reading, "UNPACK: Cannot find file "A:\ level 1\ some filename"

As I said in my post, any application requiring FreeDos had exactly the same result. I went through quite a few looking for ones that would work, hardware reporting and partitioning apps. Only the ones running on linux worked. I haven't tried in other machinery yet, just in that one IBM 390E noteboo...

I'm having a similar problem. Any program requiring FreeDOS goes through a long boot process and leaves me with a Q:> prompt, which doesn't respond. This is on a Thinkpad with an apparently nfg floppy drive, a working hdd, and the cdrom from which I'm running UBCD. If I try Q:> aida, which is the co...