Installing CDROM support...

Sorry I'm late getting in.

According to what your getting, the syntax should be...

cdgod55 a:

instead of cdgod55 /a

Try that and let us know.
Dave

OK ...the a: worked at the prompt then loaded to the formatted floppy.
I then left the floppy in the pc and rebooted.
This time it showed the image and the curser is blinking and the floppy drive light is on...is seems to be stuck there.
It is an older pc so I will give it some time.

Exactly what is this suppose to do at start up?


It's been 15 minutes and it's(the cursor) still just blinking with the floppy drive light still on???

Try this:

1. Get in front of an internet-capable Windows 9x machine with this page that you're now reading on the screen.
   
2. Click the following link to start downloading shebang2.exe (81K):
   
   http://www.bootdisk.com/dosfiles/shebang2.exe
   
3. When your computer prompts you for where you want to save this file, tell it to save it to the root directory of drive C:. (i.e., "c:\shebang2.exe").
   
4. When the download is complete, insert a floppy diskette that can be overwritten in drive A:.
   
5. Click Start|Run, type command and press [Enter].
   
6. At the DOS prompt, type:
   
   c:\windows\command\format a:/u/v:""/s
   
   and press [Enter].
   
7. When format is done, type:
   
   c:\shebang2 a:\
   
   (and press [Enter]).
   
8. Remove the diskette from drive A: on this machine, insert in drive A: on the 486 and then reboot the 486 from this diskette. With any luck you should see a screen similar to this:
   Code:

   ---

     CD-ROM Device Driver for IDE (Four Channels Supported)
  (C)Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1993-1996
  Driver Version    : V340
  Device Name        : BANANA
  Transfer Mode      : Programmed I/O
  Drive 0:  Port= 170 (Secondary Channel), Master  IRQ= 15
  Firmware version  : j01

NWCDEX.EXE Version 2.81 CD-ROM file handler.
Copyright (c) 1992, 1997 Caldera Inc. All rights reserved.
  Drive R: Driver 'banana' unit 0
A:\>

   ---

   Note that last line right above the A:\> prompt. It's telling you that the CD-ROM drive has been assigned drive letter "R:".
   
9. Insert your Windows 95 CD in your CD-ROM drive, type:
   
   dir r:\
   
   (and press [Enter]), and you should see a directory listing of your Windows 95 CD scrolling up the screen.
   
10. If you hard drive is ready to accept an installation of Windows 95, you could go ahead and type:
    
    r:\setup.exe
    
    (and press [Enter]).

Let us know how far you get? ...

Thanks Vernon...that worked.
It's loading win95 right now...thanks again.
I'll post when I'm done.

Well the CD-ROM was detected!
Great little program "SHEBANG2.EXE"

Can I change the drive letter r to be D drive?

That is a neat program...
I was able to identify the CDROM and then install win98 on the pc.
It automatically renamed the cdrom drive to D:!!!

I'm now going to try and install a modem.
I'll do that tommorrow as I'm off to work for the night now.
I'll post in the appropiate forum as well.

See you then....

Thanks

Hey hey, great to hear that it worked!

As far as changing the drive letter, (which would probably only be effective in DOS mode), simply EDIT shebang2's AUTOEXEC.BAT file and change the last letter in the file from "R" to "D". I.e.,

Before:

NWCDEX.EXE /D:banana /L:R

After:

NWCDEX.EXE /D:banana /L:D

If you load this driver at DOS then start Windows it shoul keep that same letter. If you leave the /l:r off, it would automatically select D if that is the first letter available.

Disable this DOS level driver NWCDEX.EXE by putting rem at the beginning of it line. Windows will then try to load it. If Windows can't make it work, then you can load it at DOS before Windows. You will most likely get a "DOS Compatibility Mode" error message the first time you load it at DOS.

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