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January 2nd, 2002, 12:12 AM
#21
Originally posted by freeOn
Ok I got all the way to format. Anyway when I go to restart it and put in the cd it says "Invalid System Disk" so what do I do now. It won't go to ms-dos at all without that damn startup=disk. I'm going to try to copy the files from the startupdisk to the C:\ . If I can't get it to work what should I do? Get another hard drive?
You start with a simple copy of MS-DOS 6.20 or some Windows98 bootable disk. Don't use the windows thing, make your own floppy disk with your keyboard and CD-rom support (OAK technology has a driver that works on all CD rom drives, how to make 1 is posted on AO before) . Boot with that. Use Fdisk to create primary DOS partition. restart with the boot disk
use format c: /S to format your Harddrive and install the system files on it. restart after format. From now on you can boot from HDD. Make a copy of the CD drivers and the files autoexec.bat config.sys from your FDD to your HDD. Edit your autoaxec.bat and config.sys so it will look for the cd drivers where you had put them (see the copy above) Restart. (Remove FDD insert CDD).
Now your PC starts DOS with CD support. Insert your Win98 disk and install.
I you want to use linux. Boot with some DOS disk, Use Fdisk, make a partition. Restart. Do *not* format the disk with MSDOS. Set your BIOS to start with CD, if your CD drive supports 'El Torito index' it will be able to start from CD. Insert your Linux boot CD and install from CD to the empty partition you created with FDISK
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