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re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 10:47 pm Posted by Dale (703 messages posted) You should be able to get a program here to run your CDrom in dos mode 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. http://www.bootdisk.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Monday, December 2, 2002 at 1:56 am 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Monday, December 2, 2002 at 4:39 am Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted) You don't need to include an extended memory manager, as Windows 9x handles this functions without the need for additional files. On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 1:56 am, jmb wrote: >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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:40 am Posted by Oh_dear (1415 messages posted) Need for himem etc statements in CONFIG.SYS depends on whether you boot from the startup floppy to DOS, or select the DOS option under Win9x. Win9x option does provide the himem support. Booting from the floppy, it has to be in config.sys For the OP, create a Windows startup floppy and look in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on it. You should find the details of the statements needed for CD support. On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 4:39 am, Michael wrote: >You don't need to include an extended memory manager, as Windows 9x handles this >functions without the need for additional files. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:54 am Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted) Read what I wrote again - I didn't say that himem.sys wasn't needed, as there are occasions when it is needed. What I said was that an exetended memory manager wasn't needed. On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:40 am, Oh_dear wrote: >Need for himem etc statements in CONFIG.SYS depends on whether you boot from the >startup floppy to DOS, or select the DOS option under Win9x. Win9x option does provide >the himem support. Booting from the floppy, it has to be in config.sys > >For the OP, create a Windows startup floppy and look in the config.sys and autoexec.bat >files on it. You should find the details of the statements needed for CD support. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Monday, December 2, 2002 at 12:26 pm Posted by Oh_dear (1415 messages posted) If running in pure DOS, emm386 may be needed - many DOS programs required it. Agree emm386 is not needed if you use the DOS option under Win9x. On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:54 am, Michael wrote: >Read what I wrote again - I didn't say that himem.sys wasn't needed, as there are >occasions when it is needed. > >What I said was that an exetended memory manager wasn't needed. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Monday, December 2, 2002 at 4:55 pm Posted by Yann (12 messages posted) Thank you all for your replies. I have solved this problem… by accident, today. I noticed that there were some SYS drivers in the EBD folder, and one of them works fine. So, the syntax reads as follow : DeviceHigh=c:\Windows\Command\Ebd\Oakcdrom.sys /d:Mscd001. Concerning the Himem and Emm386 statements, I still mention those (in the CONFIG.SYS on my boot disk), just to make sure that DOS is loaded into HM, to free at least 600k of conventional memory, since many DOS programs require at least 600k of conventional memory to run. Thanks again. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 5:52 am Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted) My aplogies, you're right. It's only not required in a DVM. On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 12:26 pm, Oh_dear wrote: >If running in pure DOS, emm386 may be needed - many DOS programs required it. Agree >emm386 is not needed if you use the DOS option under Win9x. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Using CD drive / drivers in DOS Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 8:34 am Posted by Oh_dear (1415 messages posted) No apology needed . On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 5:52 am, Michael wrote: >My aplogies, you're right. It's only not required in a DVM. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum