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Firstly, I do realise the absurdity of this installing ME on a laptop but I’ve got to do it.
My old laptop needs ME installing on it (which I have on CD) and I have a bootable floppy with CD ROM drivers on it, but my laptop only has 1 CD ROM/Floppy drivebay so I can either boot with floppy or with a CD ROM drive, but not both at the same time.
I’m pretty sure I can copy the contents of the boot diskette onto the HDD and make it bootable with the CD ROM support so that I can install ME, but I can’t for the life of me remember how.
Gimme a break, I’m old and haven’t touched a FAT32 drive in years, and I don’t have a pile of Win 95 floppies like I used to.
Any suggestions?
Its absurd to install that wank on anything let alone a laptop!
get a grip man
I assume your copy of ME on CD isnt bootable is it?
In the old days I believe I used a “Shuttle” .. parallel CDRom drive to get over this kinda predicament.. Can you get hold of one?
I don’t think I can get hold of a shuttle external CD ROM drive, but I know what you mean. That’d solve the problem in a flash.
However, I’m pretty sure I can copy the autoexec.bat and the boot.ini to the root of C: and make it bootable, although it’s not, so I must be doing something wrong. Or am I imagining something that I saw in an episode of Bugs?
external floppy drives are the answer – you can pick em up for 10 – 15 quid – you might even have some lying around in old laptop bags if you have access to a stash (cant remember what sort of work you do.)
Cheers Magicker, although I don’t reckon the BIOS in this laptop’ll recognise them. It’s an old, old, old, Compal (who?) laptop with only 3 boot options HDD, Floppy or CD ROM.
The other option (I suppose) is to install DOS 6 or 7 and then modify the autoexec to include CD ROM drivers and then try the CD ROM.
The other option is to bin it or use it as a doorstop.. I have to ask.. why the fook do you need it?
It’s my old firewall PC (which has been running linux) and I said I’d give it to somebody’s kid. But obviously a linux laptop isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time so I said I’d install ME on it, which was what I had running on there origionally (‘cos it supported all the drivers).
But I’d installed ME via 95, and now I don’t have the disks. Although I could have sworn that there’s a way to make the HDD bootable from a floppy.
Bah! Computers! Who’d have ’em?
BTW: LS external FDD won’t work 🙁
The DOS SYS command will make the drive bootable. It should be on the boot diskette.
http://www.computerhope.com/syshlp.htm
If you can do that you could copy the autoexec over and edit it so the paths relate to C: The CD Rom drivers would need to be copied to C: too obviously.
It would only work if the C: partition was less than 2Gb and formatted as FAT. But you could change that later after installing ME.
@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:
It’s my old firewall PC (which has been running linux) and I said I’d give it to somebody’s kid. But obviously a linux laptop isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time so I said I’d install ME on it, which was what I had running on there origionally (‘cos it supported all the drivers).
But I’d installed ME via 95, and now I don’t have the disks. Although I could have sworn that there’s a way to make the HDD bootable from a floppy.
Bah! Computers! Who’d have ’em?
BTW: LS external FDD won’t work 🙁
Not that im questioning your intelligence but is the ME CD an upgrade to Wind95 and not the full install?
@Wipers wrote:
The DOS SYS command will make the drive bootable. It should be on the boot diskette.
http://www.computerhope.com/syshlp.htm
If you can do that you could copy the autoexec over and edit it so the paths relate to C: The CD Rom drivers would need to be copied to C: too obviously.
It would only work if the C: partition was less than 2Gb and formatted as FAT. But you could change that later after installing ME.
Hooray! Wipers for teh win! That’s what I was looking for. I’ll give it a try and if it won’t work they I’ll do some jiggery pokery with HDD and other laptops, but I knew there was a proper way to do it.
By way of thanks, here’s Sarah Michelle Gellar on her fourth date with the invisible man:
And don’t worry Silver, ’tis the full product.
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