Installing Windows from CD-ROM, from the command line...

[Crepello]

Good folks of the forum,

A mate of mine recently had to reformat his hard drive, having made a DOS system boot floppy, and seemed to be on the right tracks... UNTIL he realised that his newly-vanilla PC couldn't talk to his CD-ROM drive. This gives him a problem, as his he only has Windows (98 vintage, I believe) on CD-ROM.

Anyone know how to proceed? I promised to help, but my degree in Computer Science isn't much help when it comes to a certain Redwood-based company...

Cheers all,

Crep

[ORAC]

Boot disks (http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm) with CD ROM support.

[Agent86]

Depending on if it is a laptop or desktop..

Desktop...
Enter the bios during boot sequence (DEL/F1 ...or some other magical key sequence depending on the manufacturer)..
Find where the boot sequence is and set the CDrom as the first boot device or Floppy/CD/HD..
Save your settings..
Insert win 98 CD..
Reboot ... System will boot from CD and ask you if you want to run setup..

Laptop ...Similar method but the key entry to boot from CD varies even more. do a google on your particular make

If your laptop doesn't have a built in CD then it gets MUCH harder..I ended up removing hard drive and connecting it to a desktop via 2.5 to IDE adaptor ..copied win files across then reinstalled rebooted.

Good luck

MAx

[Crepello]

Thanks for the info guys - I passed it on, will let you know how it goes.