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Twinbee:
Just a quick question.

No matter what I try, I can't get this old P1 133mhz to boot from the CDROM drive, it will only boot from C or A. It is currently running Windows 98 and I can see the CD from there.

Also, If I boot from the Windows 98 boot disk (which installs the drivers for the CDROM) I can CD to D: and start the installation by typing DOS but when it gets to installing it trys to install to A:

Is there any way I can get this to run and install by first booting from the A drive?

Thank you!

UPDATE:   After trying some other CD's, I can boot from the Windows 98 CD and also the Norton CD. But your boot disc just won't boot for me. it tries to boot and them just says 'PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT' thats it. The disc will boot on my P4 desktop PC though so the boot disk must be ok. Any ideas?

Thanks again.

spystyle:
Howdy,

Here is a modified Windows 98 startup disk that contains "Xcopy" :
http://tinyurl.com/5om4fg

Boot from the windows 98 floppy disk

*optionally* format the drive like this:

from A:>

type:

format c: /q /s

This will make the hard drive bootable, yet blank

Now type:

md c:\disk

this creates a folder called "disk" on the hard drive

from D:>

type:

xcopy /e *.* c:\disk

This will copy the entire CD to c:\disk

then go to c:\disk and type:

dos

This will start the install, withing the install choose option 1, esc out of Fdisk, and type "n" (without quotes) when prompted to confirm formatting

Cheers,
Craig

Twinbee:
Thank you for your help, I shall give this a try tonight.

RXII:
Hi guys,
             Just wondering if anyone knows how to remove the 'pause' from the menu when loading a game as well as going back into Gamelauncher. When I choose a game it stops and says

C:\MAME>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Then the game starts up fine
Then when I ESC out of the game it says

C:\GLAUNCH>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Bit strange, any help would be great!

Cheers, Simon

tikbalang:
instead of the "pause" command, use "choice.com".


--- Code: ---13. Delay a batch file.

There's a basic method to make a delay, which is using the CHOICE command with the /T switch. The following line will take a 60 second delay:
CHOICE /c:$ /t:$,60 /n > nul
::               ^^ Time to wait (from 1 to 99)
The delay will be skipped if user enters "$". That is useful if you want to give the option to skip the delay.

--- End code ---

source:
http://www.batchfiles.co.nr/

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