[syslinux] syslinux installation issues

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 10-11-2009 8:17, H. Peter Anvin schreef:
>
> syslinux.com is for DOS-based operating systems only.
>
> syslinux.exe is for NT-based operating systems.
>    

All good and well, but that doesn't help me. syslinux.exe (win32) will 
not be able to write itself to C: (single harddisk, single full-capacity 
primary partition) under ReactOS (tried, failed) or Windows due to 
limited hardware access I guess.
Syslinux.com is the program which gives the 'sector read error' and I'm 
failing to understand why I get this error on recent Syslinux versions 
when booting from cdrom or floppy, then executing syslinux.com c: on fat32.
Don't get me wrong, for my purposes FAT16 is fine, but I'd dislike being 
forced to limitations like first checking for fat16, then downloading 
syslinux 2.11 (if at all, ancient Wget DOS-port and your '/OLD/' 
directory on kernel.org only end up in 'moved' messages),
then installing that followed by same procedure for recent Syslinux. 
Would be more generic to not get any 'sector read error', no matter what 
kind of FAT-formatted partition C: would be (primary, logical, fat16, 
fat32).