Well well well... It worked, by gum! Thanks to all who helped in
my quest yesterday. I know have a near-fully operational dual-boot
system on my beast at home. Now for the fine tuning. Thanks,
again, for the 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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