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Hi guys and girls,

Firstly I must say what a nice forum this looks like and also that bootdisk.com is a great site that has been a God send to me in the past.

I'm somewhere in between novice and expert.

I have a small problem that I'm sure some of you will be able to help with.

In the past I have used win 95 floppy bootdisks without many problems. I now find myself in a postion where I can no longer use my old ways.

I'm dual booting a machine, win 95 and win 2K. (Have done a few before.) However, the difference this time is the machine has no floppy drive. Having made a bootable CD from my old floppy bootdisk I find that although I can boot into dos and open fdisk etc it's not in the format I'm used to.
For some reason I'm always in "standard mode" and denied options like deleting partions. Also the commands used in this CD form are different to what I was used to seeing when using a floppy bootdisk.
After making a bootable CD from my floppy bootdisk using Nero, which looks like it disguises the CD as a floppy, set the bios boot order to CD, the CD boots and loads FDISK R2.13 Caldera. I then type fdisk at the dos prompt and am taken to the fdisk menu. I can set up a Pri Dos FAT32 LBA partition but this is about as far as I can get. I haven't been able to format the partition from dos prompt or run win 95 setup from dos prompt. When ever I attempt either I get can't do the it "standard mode" or "unknown parameter" etc, then a list of options like "/x, size=/?" ...

I'm confuzzled!!

If anybody could shed some light on this for me I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

Hey!

Welcome to PCHF!

To be 100% honest your post made my eyes glaize over with confusion lol, but someone who can read this and make sense of it will be around soon. lol

PJ

Could be the fdisk verion of Caldera is different than Microsoft's? Get the StartupDisk from MS-DOS 6.22 and put the FDisk from that to your CD-try it on a R/W media first just to be sure...

Thanks for the reply.

I'll try that tomorrow George. Funny thing is though, the CD bootdisk was made using the 95 bootdisk link on bootdisk.com, I thought that would have been a microsoft version.

Will let you know how it goes tomorrow.

Thanks.

Made a CD bootdisk using the DOS 6.22. I'm getting the exact same result, so it looks like the conversion software in Nero is changing it to Caldera DR-DOS that I mention in my original post.

In dos prompt the A: drive is the CD drive, but when I put in the WIn 95 disk it can't be read.

Anyone have any idea how to load WIn95 using a CD bootdisk??????

I'm doing this for a customer so it's quite important.


Regards,

Kevin

UPDATE

UPDATE

I formatted the partition using partition logic which is a free download off the net.

I checked the CD Bootdisk again and tried ..
A: setup, B: setup, C: setup and D: setup and windows 95 has started to load using the D: setup command.
Will let you know how things progress.

Kevin

Just to let you know how things turned out...


1. Created primary partition using fdisk with the CD bootdisk
2. Used "partition logic" to format the partition
3. Then using DOS prompt from the CD bootdisk again I ran win95 setup using
D: Setup


Everything going fine now.
(For the moment anyway )

Thanks all.

Kevin