Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME [Help pelase?]

[some1]

Ive read about getting the Floppy Disk setup, and then using FINDCD.EXE...

This true?

[jaclaz]

Maybe if you post a description of what you would like to do it will help giving an answer....

[sarcasm]

unfortunately my crystal ball is under maintenance right now.....

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jaclaz

Edited September 24, 2006 by jaclaz

[some1]

http://clientes.netvisao.pt/ggrooves/guide/me.htm

Editing "FINDCD.EXE"

First we'll need to acquire the FINDCD.EXE program. All it does is replace those nasty IF EXIST lines in most code. It also gets rid of those problems when ZIP drives are used as an error may be caused by those IF EXIST lines. Download FINDCD.EXE here.

Now to the editing.

Open up FINDCD.EXE in HEX Workshop and look for the line %c:\WIN51 (if you're using the linked FINDCD.EXE) or %c:\WIN98\SETUP.EXE (if it's the original FINDCD.EXE).

You're looking for what's in RED. Click over to where the numbers are, and find the position that corresponds with the \ after the %c:

start typing 0's. not O's, but ZERO's. This makes everything null. Type the zero's up till the next %. Don't 00 the %.

Alrighty then. Pick a file at the root of your CD. I chose WIN51 as my CD also has Windows XP on it. If you had a CD.TXT file you could use that. Or you could create your own, so that each disk is unique like AIO1.txt if you have different version of the disk.

Click over to the text side of the window. just after the %c: type \WIN51 and substitute WIN51 with your file, and be sure to include the file extension if there is one. Win51 doesn't have one, so I didn't. Also make sure that it's in ALL CAPS. I don't know if it really matters, but better safe then sorry.

[jaclaz]

Ok, this is a mirror of flyakite's Multiboot DVD, still don't quite understsnd the question, if it is:

This true?

The short answer is YES.

The long one is:

YES, but there are several methods to identify the drive letter of a CD from a DOS/Win9x/ME batch, apart from "If exist" loops and FINDCD.EXE, I personally find this the best:

FINDCD.COM:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/amb_cdrom.html

or this other version of FINDCD.COM and FINDCD.BAT (not the one by Tom Lavedas, that uses Registry and is not suiteble during install) you find here):

http://www.claymania.com/mtx-removal.html

http://www.claymania.com/Remmtx.zip

jaclaz

[some1]

All i want to do is to make a bootable CD with windows 95,98 and ME on it...

Is this the right way to do so?

[jaclaz]

There is no "right" or "wrong" ways to do something, anything that works and suites personal tastes is "right".

If we are talking about a bootable CD from which you can install any of Win95, 98 or ME, personally I would use a different approach, using Grub4DOS grldr as no-emulation boot image for CD rom and using menu.lst to select the three different floppy boot images, another one would use BCDW and another one yet CD-Shell, but there are probably tens of different ways to achieve the same result.

jaclaz

[chon_]

you can even achieve this with only one floppy bootable image and editing the autoexec.bat file to suit your needs. This seems more simple to me if you're only instaling 95, 98, me.

[pmshah]

Why go through all the rigmarole?

In the floppy boot autoexec you can assign the letter you want to the CD rom drive.

All you need is a simple menu in config.sys & you can select the folder from which to start your installation.