A real challenge, the weak need not apply :)

[Dejas]

Ok, after an hour of trying, can someone explain to me write a bootdisk FROM SCRATCH for win98 dos mode that loads your SCSI cdrom drive?

i just.. cant.. get.. mscdex to work!!

--Dejas

 

[Damaged]

What kind of SCSI card is it? This might be easier than you think.

 

[Slikkster]

Have you tried making a "Startup" disk from Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs? That is usually very successful in loading a generic cdrom driver for dos boots.

 

[Dejas]

the SCSI card is an adaptec AHA2930. The drivers on my adaptec disk do now work, however, making a win98 boot disk does work. However, I have just always wanted to know how to pop open my config.sys and autoexec.bat and write the lines to load a generic cdrom driver with mscdex. It just seems like a good skill to have in the event you dont have another computer to make a boot disk for you... If someone can explain it, I would be very thankful.

--Dejas

 

[Damaged]

Aha! Adaptec card. It is easy. Just copy the latest Adaptec drivers from the disks that came with the card to the Win98 boot disk and it should work fine.

Oh, I don't feel like explaining how to write those files. It's a longer post than I'm willing to do right now, but...here's a couple of links for 'ya.

http://www.chembook.chemusa.com/chembook/w95sboot.html

http://www.hildrum.com/boot_disk.html

 

[Perce]

or you ccould try here

http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Damaged]

Heh! Nice link, and it also links to the chembook site that I mentioned.