TO John Rye. A very good guess about the Linux-Newbie lady being Marcia.
<smile>
I had sent the files off an old win '98 disk that my son had laying around, had
her make a bootable DOS floppy, and had her put them on the floppy. Something
got trashed in the process and she still did not have CD-Rom support. THAT was
when she told that she HAD a Win '98 Startup disk that someone had given to her
and she asked if she should try that one. From there on it has been step by
step. It has been interesting.
TO Mike Rambo. Thanks for the information about the floppy disk image.
-----Original Message -----
From: Mike Rambo
To: David Boles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:14:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [expert] Disk image
> David Boles wrote:
> >
> > Is it possibel to make a disk image of a bootable DOS/Windows disk "give" it to
> > someone and they then could turn it back into a bootable DOS/Windows disk?
> >
>
> Not real sure what you mean. If you make an "image of a bootable
> DOS/Windows disk" and give it to someone they shouldn't have to do
> _anything_ to turn it back into a bootable disk. Linux will copy dos/win
> disks with no problems at all. Use 'dd if=/dev/fd0
> of=/someplace/nice/file.img' and then 'dd if=/someplace/nice/file.img
> of=/dev/fd0' to copy any dos/win or linux floppy.
>
> > I have been trying to help a Linux-Newbie lady install Windows '95 on a VMware
> > virtual disk. From what she describes she has a bootable DOS disk but it does
> > not have CD-Rom support
>
> CD support isn't usually much of a problem. It turns out that _most_ ide
> cd drives (especially if they're 8x or newer) will function with generic
> drivers. Win98 uses a driver called oakcdrom.sys for nearly all ide cd
> drive support on win98 installs. cpq_ide.sys from compaq, nec_ide.sys
> from packard bell/nec, iomcdrom.sys from i/o magic, and several others
> will work with nearly any cd drive. Put the driver you select and
> mscdex.exe on her boot floppy and modify two files like so: config.sys
> - add a line 'device=nameofdriver.sys /d:idecdrom' and in autoexec.bat -
> add a line 'mscdex.exe /d:idecdrom'. Anybody you know who has a win98
> machine will have oakcdrom.sys hanging around somewhere. If all else
> fails ask them to make you a boot disk (from control panel - add/remove
> programs) and it'll be on there.
>
> > and a bootable OEM Windows '95 CD that complains and
> > fails when she tries install on a "not for this machine". I sounds like she
> > knows very little about Linux, nothing about DOS, and she was a Windows "point
> > n' clicker".
> >
> > If this is posaible could someone point me to an information source? One that I
> > don't have to buy for $29.95. <smile>
> >
> > And to answer the question I am SURE I will be asked. Why is she trying to do
> > this? I don't know.
>
> If she has a big enough hard drive and is willing to dual boot her
> machine VMWare will use the windows install she has for the dual boot
> eliminating the need to install windows on the VMWare virtual machine.
>
> >
> > --
> >
> > David Boles
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ABD0
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
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