Good ol' DOS

[Bumblebee Tuna]

Here's an oldie, but goodie. I've put DOS back on an old PC of mine. Pentium 1, 60MHz hee, hee, heee. Now, I want to get the CD Rom to work, but how do I install it on DOS. It's not picking it up on the startup, and it's not showing up in the bios. I know the CD Rom works. Does anyone know how to get it to work. And don't ask why I'm using this old piece of shoe, I know, I know, so don't ask, lol

 

[beedubaya]

You need to use a program called MSCDEX.EXE. You add it to your AUTOEXEC.BAT i believe. I don't remember exactly what you do with it though.

 

[Bumblebee Tuna]

Ya, I just realized that I need to find the cd-rom floppy drivers, shoot, it might not be able to do it just yet. Bummer

 

[Iantosca]

I'm sure the drivers are floating around the internet somewhere. I remember doing this on an old computer with mscdex.exe and autoexec.bat. I was young, probably around 12 or so ... so it shouldn't be too hard. Just a little confidence booster for ya.

 

[Alvin.C]

Re:

...I don't think I was alive! :freak: ...

 

[Bumblebee Tuna]

ya, thanks for the confidence booster, lol. haha

 

[killians45]

add these lines into the autoexec.bat and config.sys and also check the site below for drive specifics


Autoexec.bat

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:NCI000 /V

Config.sys

DEVICE=C:\CDROM\IDE-CD.SYS /D:NCI000

here is a site with examples listing the cdrom type:

http://www.techadvice.com/tech/C/CDROM_DOSSU.htm