You need the oak cdrom drivers or a windows 98 boot disk
At 04:06 PM 6/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:22:45 +0100, Ted wrote:
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> >Sorry abt the title...
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>Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:12:17
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>Hi Ted, the title causes me no heartburn 8-)
>the solution to your problem is at www.bootdisk.com
>
> >I have just inherited a Dell computer with a 4 gig h/drive.....it has been
> >partitioned into 2 2gig's....I have the win95 cdrom's but no driver
> disks for
> >the cdrom drive..I wanrt to remove the win95 system and put the whole lot to
> >linux...I am running Mandrake on the second partition..I have made a sys
> disk
> >for the win partition too....If I use the sysdisk to reformat the first
> drive
> >it will of course delete the cdrom driver....Will the linux boot.img
> pickup the
> >cdrom on a bare drive or doe it read the dos sys files...I have never
> used w95
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>You will need a bootdisc with the "real mode drivers" for dos that
>will operate your CD ROM....there are several generic drivers there
>that will likely work...you may have to try several...these are
>different than the windows 95 drivers and work in a small dos
>environment that will be on the bootdisk image that you download.
>
>I wont try to put more details here as it is all in the instructions
>there.
>
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>Olly P
>Biloxi
>Mississippi
>Linux programs explained:
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>8-).
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