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Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom
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Jason Roysdon |
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Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom |
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Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:38:53 -0800 (PST) |
Off-topic, but the commands are:
format /s a:
then you'd want to copy over a generic IDE CDROM driver and configure
config.sys to load it, as well as MSCDEX.EXE. I've a Win98se boot .img that
I've used for a long time (as I never have Win9x around, just NT/2K/XP at
work or newer). Useful for booting up and then running network drivers off
of a CD or Ghost, etc. If someone with an old laptop required such a thing,
shoot me an email and I can email it back (approx 1.44mb, of course).
You can tell where my background is ;-)'
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Devon wrote:
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> On Sunday 17 February 2002 07:32 pm, James wrote:
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> > Any other suggestions on how to get this to work when you DON"T have
> > a built in cdrom would be helpful.
>
> The machine I am testing on won't boot from the cdrom either. You can:
> Download the iso image and burn it to a cd.
>
> If you have a linux machine available-
> Mount the newly created cd.
> (or mount the image file like:
> mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image_name /some/mount/point)
>
> cd to the images directory on the cd.
> put a floppy in the floppy drive,
> run 'dd if=pcmcia.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k'
>
> This will create a bootable floppy.
>
> You can accomplish the same thing with a windows machine, though I don't
> know the commands off the top of my head.
>
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- [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, James, 2002/02/17
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, Devon, 2002/02/17
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom,
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- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, Martin Stricker, 2002/02/18
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, James, 2002/02/18
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, Martin Stricker, 2002/02/19
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, James, 2002/02/19
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, James, 2002/02/22
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, Martin Stricker, 2002/02/22
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, James, 2002/02/23
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, Devon, 2002/02/22
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, James, 2002/02/23
- Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom, Devon, 2002/02/23
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