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CDROM support for Caldera DR-DOS
Name: Rich Dennis Date: November 10, 2003 at 09:20:54 Pacific OS: same as above CPU/Ram: 200Mhz w/128 Mb
Comment:
I know that this is a very basic (and non-Win3.1 related) question, but here goes: I installed Caldera DR-DOS on an NEC 200 MhZ system in hopes of installing 3.1/Calmira as the shell. I'd like to have an operational CDROM;which means that there's some drivers/CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT lines that need to be added. Does anyone know whether or not they're DR-DOS specific, or would the generic MSCDEX.exe work? If the second is the case, I believe that I'd have to add MSCDEX.exe to the root directory (not sure though). And if so, I definitely don't remember the syntax of the line added to CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT to get the ROM to be recognized. Any takers? I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.
Name: x86 Date: November 10, 2003 at 10:05:00 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.bootdisk.com/readme.htm#cdromdos
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Response Number 2
Name: Rich Dennis Date: November 10, 2003 at 10:41:36 Pacific
Reply:
Problem solved. Thanks x86. Appreciate the prompt reply.
RD
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Response Number 3
Name: Soedesh Date: November 13, 2003 at 20:17:18 Pacific
Reply:
Of course Caldera/DR-DOS has its own NWCDEX.exe which is a good replacement for MSCDEX.exe. In some rare cases programs will not work well. These are as far as I know DOS programs which require MSCDEX.....
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