[Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom

[Jason Roysdon]

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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