On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I have this nice newer hardrive that I installed storm 2000 linux on.
> I have two DOS partitions on the front end of the drive (C and D). I
> would like to install my old win95 on the C partition but am having
> some "issues".
> The driver for my cdrom doesn't seem to "take". (I'm awaiting a
> reply from the manufacturer about that.) It says installation
> complete and lets me know the files that were changed
> (COMMAND.COM and AUTOEXEC.BAT I believe) but there is no
> drive assigned my cdrom drive. Hence, I cannot get it to work in
> DOS.
I certainly hope it isn't modifying COMMAND.COM. :)
But you are just trying to install Win95 on the C drive,
right? The way I do this with Win98 (and Win95 before
it) is to copy the entire CD onto the hard drive and install
from there.
Linux is ideally suited for this. The kernel has support
for all ATAPI CD-ROMs (any modern CD drive) as well
as legacy support for most of the older drives.
> I tried using (from a terminal as root) cp /dev/cdrom /dev/hda1 and
> it seemed to be doing the trick but then it stopped and I got some
> sort of I/O error. (And then dos said that partition was now
> unreadable so I went and reformatted it as a dos partition and then
> dos was happy.)
Mount your CD drive into, say, /cdrom. Make sure that your
hd is mounted, say as /DOS. Then do a cp -a /cdrom /DOS
Make sure, though, that an 'ls /cdrom' shows the contents of
your cd and that 'ls /DOS' shows the contents of your C drive
(or wherever).
--
Christopher Thompson http://hypocrite.org/
"Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same
time will that it should become a universal law."
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