Re: Need help installing RH7.0 on 486 w/ Orchid SW32

[Boris Kortiak <bpkprsnl erols com>]

Adrian,

Thank you for the reply.

Adrian D'Costa wrote:

> If you can open your system and put the cdrom on the same cable of your
> harddisk you can save one get one step ahead.

The cable for the CD-ROM is not an IDE cable.  Different number of pins.

> I assume that your 486 does
> not have a bios that will me the cdrom first boot device (mine does
> not).  Boot from a DOS with the cdrom driver or a windows boot disk.  Then
> change over to your cdrom and in the dosutils run autoboot.

This is what I would have done, but someone got to the computer before me and
formatted the drive.  The driver (the part in config.sys) is missing and there
are no backup diskettes.  All they installed was a partial DOS 6.1 OS.  In
other words, I have no access to the CD-ROM from DOS.

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