Thanks for the info. I do have another question, though. I mounted
the cdrom like this:
mount /dev/cdrom
And off she goes!
Then when I do the same for hda1 (where my C partition is) it says
permission denied -- but I'm doing this as root!
I am still a newbie and I read as much as my schedule allows so I
apologize if this is all a bit common sense for you. But what am I
missing? Do I need to mount the hda1 (aka C) partition differently?
And one more question (sorry). When I originally formatted and
partitioned my hard drive, the first two partitions (dos C and dos D)
are both 2Gb -- but linux sees the C (aka hda1) as having 2Gb and
D (hda2) as a dos extended partition with the size being the
remainder of my hard drive. Then it lists the other partitions I have
for linux and their appropriate sizes. DOS sees the C and D as
having the same 2 Gb size. What gives?
Oh so many questions, so little time... :)
Thanks for you help!
Todd
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On 5 Jul 00, at 9:53, Christopher Thompson wrote:
> 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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