nickb834

Hs anyone had any luck with Linux Live CD Distro's (Mandrake Move / Knoppix / Slax etc) on their DVD. The best I can manage is with ISOLINUX command boot the kernel and tell it where the root filesystem is (initrd.img) but then it fails to find the rest of the cd (I think because it has been manually told where the kernel and initrd are and that it cannot mount the cd itself because of the fact the cd's contents are on a different disc ie our dvd). Any ideas?

Hmmn, not so sure about your RAMDRIVE - with mine I had loads of problems until I copied flyakites guide (Obviously we need to create a ramdrive with the necessary tools loaded into it - which I got wrong!!). All I can suggest is try and copy what this page says and try it to see what happens: http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/98se.htm Also it looks like you have a two disk 98 boot disk, did you combine them into one 2.88MB image? if so you can remove these lines (It's not important but it cleans things up a bit - less to check for mistakes ): =============================================== :ERROR IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT echo Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2 echo. pause GOTO ERROR :EXT =============================================== Mindst you, after thinking about it - you only get this problem on a couple of machines don't you? not all machines - try a bios upgrade as alot of PC's don't support the bootable cd standard properly. Nickb834

Hmmmn, strange it sounds as if for whatever reason that as you boot win9x / Me with a command similar to this: then memdisk /win9x.img That your dos bootdisk can't see your drives At this point your MS-DOS disk has booted the PC,before you run the setup.exe command in DOS can you 'cd' to each one of your pc's drives (in effect can MSDOS see all your drives / partitions). If you can then in all likelihood you have made a mistake in editing your config.sys / autoexec.bat files. They should read like this: AUTOEXEC.BAT =================================================== EXT %RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NUL echo The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%. echo. LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM% echo. cls echo Now installing Windows 98 SE echo. echo Loading... path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\PATH TO WHEREVER ON DVD YOU PUT\98SE\ SETUP.EXE CONFIG.SYS =================================================== files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 lastdrive=z device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 Hope this helps Nickb834

Do these machines that it happens on have more than 1 cd / dvd drive? Does your machine that it works on have only one? I think your problem lies in the fact that these pc's Bios does not boot correctly from an optical drive unless it is the master drive on the second channel or the slave on the primary channel. It is due to the way that Win9x/Me handle drive letter assignments, if you have XP/2000/NT4 on the same dvd, do they have the same issue? Nickb834

Are you using SATA or SCSI discs? can XP setup see your hard disks? Do you normally have to press F6 to specify additional drivers to use during setup? Nickb834