I suppose DirectSym 10.1 is still in development

The DRM code is prolly not ready yet.. hence, extended release

I'm waiting for SymbOS Surface

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Hi Prodatron! What about driver OCM SD/MMC for Symbos?

Prodatron told that he will be back on SymbOS on February. Now he is busy with some job and "real life" issues.

I am not able to run Symbos2.0.sometimes i am able to run it and got 8 icons on screen, sometimes 4.
But none are working, got error code 0 or error code 24 iirc.
Setup: Turbo-R A1GT, IDE-CF. Symbos is installed on master, 1st partition. Slave is FAT16.
I run it in dos2.
i tried also this command: symbos f0 m6.
Seems it can not find ide interface, i can only select drive a and b ( in the run option, but it gave offcourse an error because there is no fdc driver) but no C:
if i try this command: symbos f0 m6 p4, then still icons do not work but i can select c drive ( in run menu) and can see the files on that partition.
also tried with BlueMSX (set to turbo-r emulation) and got exact the same problem.

I had the same problem as you!
Talking with prodatron he told me to manually edit the symbos.ini file to change the default drive letter form A to C and it worked! If you want I can send you my symbos.ini file so you can try it...
Also I'll see if I can find the mail prodatron sent me to tell you exactly were you have to change the letter. I used diskview (DV.COM) on the MSX to edit the file.
Hope this helps!

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Gakubuchi "Marc"

thanks, will try that in couple of days, i let you know if i got it to work.

i'm trying Symbos to start from my CF, but i get a "disc error while loading....." when the Symbos desktop is loaded and when i click an icon on it.

The system i use is:
- turbo R ST
- Gouda slotexpander in slot 2 of the turbo R
- Sunrise CF in slot 1 of the slotexpander
- Symbos 2.0

1gb CD card with one fat12 partition (a:\) with symbos on it (symbos is copied on the root of this partition) and a second fat16 partition (b:\).

The startup command i tried is:
symbos f0 m6 p4

maybe i must specify the slot and subslot where the CF is located, but i don't know how. Could you guys help me out?

I also can't get Symbos to work properly. Reading these entries, I'd say a dummy installation guide would be very useful

*doublepost*

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I also can't get Symbos to work properly. Reading these entries, I'd say a dummy installation guide would be very useful

Yeah that surely would be great!

The idefdisk tool provided with the sunrise interface partitions the disk in a different order then under dos/windows/symbos.

* MSX partition 1 = A: -> SymbOS partition 4
* MSX partition 2 = B: -> SymbOS partition 3
* MSX partition 3 = C: -> SymbOS partition 2
* MSX partition 4 = D: -> SymbOS partition 1

So if you have formated with idefdisk and put Symbos om your MSXDOS 'A:' drive (MSX partition 1) you'd have to boot SymbOS with parameter 'p4'
Drive assignment under SymbOS is more like MS-DOS or Windows. A: and B: are reserved for floppies, the first available harddiskpartition will be drive C: and counting upwards.
Unfortunately after having started SymbOS, this OS sees it has been booted from (SymbOS)partition 4, which if you have 4 partitions, would be drive F:
The default SymbOS config has shortcuts on the desktop which point to applications on drive C: so you have to change this config.

First go to the 'start' menu, click 'run...' and press the 'browse' button. Perhaps you get a warning/error here, just hope you still get a file selection menu :-)
Open the pull-down menu on the top of the window and select the partition where you put your SymbOS directory with the applications. From the examples given up until now, I would guess this would be 'F: IdeMasterP4'
Go to the SYMBOS directory on this partition (just doubleclick on the SYMBOS directory), and select the 'Appcp.exe' and open it
After having opened the Control Panel, doubleclick on the 'System' icon. Next, change the 'System Path' to the drive and directory where SymbOS resides. In our example this would be: 'F:\SYMBOS\'
Close both System and the Control Panel by pressing the 'OK' button.

Now the most important... go back to the 'Start' menu, third from the top would be a 'settings' submenu with a 'save' option!

You can now try to shutdown SymbOS and restart it (symbos p4)
I hope everything would be okay by now :-)

I hope this is fool-proof enough and I won't have to post screenshots |-)

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Especially for W76NearDark. You seem to have 2 idefdisk formated partitions on your CF card.

* MSX partition 1 = A: -> SymbOS partition 4
* MSX partition 2 = B: -> SymbOS partition 3

SymboS sees 2 valid partitions will give them drivenames like this:

* MSX partition 1 = A: -> SymbOS partition 4 = D:
* MSX partition 2 = B: -> SymbOS partition 3 = C:

(SymbOS)Partition 3 being the first found, and partition 4 being the second found.
You would probably have to change your 'System Path' to 'D:\SYMBOS\'

(start -> browse -> D: -> symbos -> appcp.exe -> system -> system path -> D:\SYMBOS\ -> OK -> OK -> start -> settings -> save)

Well, that's easy enough, isn't it? :-)

Thanx Patsie for your help. But when symbos is started it won't find my CF partitions at all. Thus i can't load appcp.exe from the browse option in Symbos. So i think my problem is Symbos isn't recognizing my CF interface at all after Symbos is loaded.

I might say i have the same problem as Abi. Maybe it's an idea to autodetect the required hardware?

Driver MegaSD of OCM for SYMBOS here:www.caro.k66.ru/files/fdocm.zip