loading a driver

6 Apr 2005 4:34 AM

Bacchus

How do I load a driver from DOS?

6 Apr 2005 4:48 AM

Grinder

Bacchus wrote:

> How do I load a driver from DOS?

You're trying to load a cdrom driver from a win98 boot disk? If that's
the case, I would use one of the prepacked boot disks I referenced
earlier. It will actually try a number of drivers to match your drive.

6 Apr 2005 5:03 AM

Bacchus

It is just not working for some reason. I also tried the other one you gave
ne. Still the same old thing.

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> Bacchus wrote:
> > How do I load a driver from DOS?
>
> You're trying to load a cdrom driver from a win98 boot disk? If that's
> the case, I would use one of the prepacked boot disks I referenced
> earlier. It will actually try a number of drivers to match your drive.
>

6 Apr 2005 5:01 AM

Grinder

Bacchus wrote:

> It is just not working for some reason. I also tried the other one you gave
> ne. Still the same old thing.

Maybe you can get another drive long enough to make the install?

6 Apr 2005 5:29 AM

CBFalconer

Bacchus wrote:

>
> How do I load a driver from DOS?

By entries in config.sys and autoexec.bat. For example, here is my
config.sys under W98. The last line is the driver:

lastdrive=z
dos=high,umb
SHELL=C:\4DOS\602\4DOS.COM C:\4DOS\602\ /P
device=c:\sbcdr\drv\sbcd.sys /D:MSCD001 /P:220

And this is the line in autoexec.bat that makes it available under
DOS 7. MSCDEX accesses files, while the driver accesses the disk.

LH c:\windows\command\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /V /M:15

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7 Apr 2005 3:37 AM

Raymond Sirois

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:34:27 -0400, "Bacchus" <kdoye2***@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>How do I load a driver from DOS?
>
>
>

DOS device drivers are typically loaded from CONFIG.SYS. The line
would look something like this:

DEVICE=[drive letter:][device filepath\][device filename] [options]

The device filename will usually end in .SYS

options may or may not be preceded by a slash or dash character....

Example:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS NOEMS

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