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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3044)10/17/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
Can't do it.... A lot of people on that adaptec mailing
list have been working on this but no one has succeeded.

Either way a floppy will always suffice.

Is the problem with running the OS off CD? It makes sense that Win95
or NT may have a problem as they need to write to the harddrive..swap/page file.
What about DOS?

Your comments on this CDR boot procedure...my read is that Thonig is booting Win95 from CD.
nikko.simplenet.com

What is Adaptec doing with this procedure?

To use the bootable CD, you need a motherboard that support booting
from a CD-ROM drive; usually you can find this setting in the
motherboard's BIOS under Boot Options. If the boot options include
"CDROM", then you can do it. Be sure to set the CD-ROM choice as the
first in the sequence (typical entries might be CDROM, A, C).

1.Select the CD boot option in the motherboard BIOS,
as described above, insert the CD, and reboot the system. Now it will boot from
the boot image on the CD, which will be seen as drive A: while the
real floppy disk drive is seen as B:.

2.From A: type SYS C: This will transfer the boot files to the hard
disk.
3.From C: type A:\\XCOPY.EXE Z:\\*.* /S C:

Your whole drive is restored.
adaptec.com;

Zeuspaul

ps..I hope this post is legible...I cant find all the hidden whatevers
to delete to prevent the post from becoming an extra wide format.
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