Help on installation II

[BMcGrath]

Well I have done it again. I am at my A drive with the heelp of a boot disk. But now my computers not seeing the cd room drive. How do I get a driver and get the files into the new partion. Once again thanks.

 

[DrGreen26]

Thats easy, just download and use any generic ASPI cdrom driver. Setup your floppy so that it loads the driver from the A drive. once you do that, you should be able to access and see the cdrom and launch the install program from the netware cd.


Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[BMcGrath]

Now I cant load the driver. And when I'm at the C prompt and try to do anything it says "invalid media type reading drive c"

As always any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[salserocito]

Did you FORMAT the C Drive after you ran FDISK on it?

Good Luck!

 

[BMcGrath]

I tried your suggestion but I am getting "Bad command or file name" I am getting frustrated

 

[salserocito]

Boot from a DOS disk that has both FDISK and FORMAT on it. Then try running it again.

Good Luck!

 

[SteveWallace]

Ok, I really don't want to be the jerk here, and I know that we all have our brain freezes. But are you sure your not getting in over your head, it sounds as if you are hung up very early on? Have you tried to just boot from the CD? Most newer systems and newer software are bootable from the CD. If thats not the case, go here:

http://dos.li5.org/DOWNLOAD/TECHW0RM.ZIP

and download a simple bootdisk. Be sure to format the disk with system files first or run a "sys a:" on teh disk later.

 

[SteveWallace]

Ok, I am the jerk. I went back and read your first post, your just starting out. Like the guy in the other post said, try to boot from CD, you'll save yourself a lot of head ache. Also that link I gave you above come from

http://www.bootdisk.com,

but I went direct since it seemed like the disk that your would most likely want.