🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Bob Goddard <Bob@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>What I am hoping for is that the Boot disc will be generated in the
>>install procedure. So that you can boot from it, FDISK to a big (>2.1GB)
>>partition, maybe even install FAT32, then carry on install from CD-ROM.
>>
>
>What you need is the disk that should have been attached to the label.
>The Startup Disk that Win95 produces on or after completion of
>installation will boot up but won't make your CD-ROM drive accessible.
>The CD-ROM Setup disk is supplied by Microsoft with every copy of OSR2
>to 2.5, but only in a generic form, the intention being that the system
>builder will customise the disk with the appropriate script amendments
>and CD-ROM drivers. In practice, the system builder is just as likely to
>chuck the disk away, knowing the alternatives are to spent precious time
>producing a customised disk or to send out the un-customised generic
>disk knowing 99% of customers will complain that it doesn't work (it
>only has dummy entries in the script and no CD-ROM drivers).

Until I found out about this boot disc, I was intending to set it up by
hand anyway. ie locate and extract FDISK.EXE from the CABs, hope it
didn't need DLLs as well, and set up the CD-ROM drivers.

>
>Let me know if you would like a copy of the generic disk (the
>instructions in the script file are easy enough to follow).
>
Somebody has already let me have that, thanks.

>Alternatively, and probably better, get hold of a startup disk produced
>by Windows 98. This is quite a useful tool. It uses a generic CD-ROM
>driver that seems to cope with just about anything. It gives several
>boot up choices and creates a small RAM-drive holding a selection of
>useful tools like FDISK and DEBUG (if I remember rightly). Just as
>useful under Win95 as it is with Win98. Again, if you're stuck for a
>copy, I should be able to help.

I have that too! Looks like I am sorted.
Thanks.

-- 
Barry Smith
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