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re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS
Monday, December 2, 2002 at 1:56 am
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Posted by jmb (844 messages posted)


If you create a Win98 boot disk, you could probaly edit the files to your convenience. You will have to include Himen and other memory manager devices in the config.sys file.


On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 9:35 pm, Yann wrote:
>This is one I haven't solved yet. Some old DOS games only run in DOS mode. Of course,
>making a boot disk helps. But I am having some problems configuring the CONFIG.SYS
>and the AUTOEXEC.BAT files. I have a DVD and a CD-R drive, and want to use at least
>one of them in DOS. On older computers, I used to write device(high)=c:\"cddriver.sys"
>/d:mscd001 in the CONFIG.SYS file, and c:\windows\command\mscdex /d:mscd001 /l:"drive
>letter" in the AUTOEXEC file. But now, my O/S is Win98, and I have no idea of the
>name of the SYS file to mention in the device command string, nor if the "mscdex"
>is the right driver id. Any hint on this subject would help. Thanks.


Written in response to:
Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 9:35 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Monday, December 2, 2002 at 4:39 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 9:35 pm)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Dale: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 10:47 pm)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (jmb: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 1:56 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 4:39 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 11:40 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 11:54 am)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 12:26 pm)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Yann: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 4:55 pm)
-re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Michael: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 5:52 am)
*re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS (Oh_dear: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 8:34 am)
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