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Hello. I'm sorry to ask a "Non-Windows" question, but could someone please
point me in the direction of a DOS based newsgroup? I'm trying to set up a
CDROM in DOS and haven't had any luck. Thank you very much!
 
Microsoft has 4 DOS related groups that you can try:

microsoft.public.basic.dos
microsoft.public.vb.dos
microsoft.public.win3x_wfw_dos
microsoft.public.win95.msdosapps
microsoft.public.works.dos

They will probably start by asking if you have the CD-ROM device driver
loaded in the config.sys file (example: device=oakcdrom.sys
/D:mscd001), and the initialization within the autoexec.bat file
(example: LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%) [both examples
taken from a general Win 98 DOS boot disk).

You can also look at this reference:

http://www.techadvice.com/tech/C/CDROM_DOSSU.htm
 
wow, that brings back a lot of painful memories.

Is this a real DOS 6.22 box?
http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm has a DOS 6.22 bootdisk with
cdrom drivers on it.

Copy the cdrom.sys, or oak cdrom.sys, or whatever file kicks when you use
this boot disk and then monkey around with your autoexec.bat and config.sys
until you get it to load.

I understand that is a very vague answer. I don't have a lot of details.

IF you get it all going, Save your startup files and run MEMMAKER, or track
down a copy of QEMM because cdrom drivers take huge amounts of conventional
memory.

I never thought I would ever be telling anyone to run memmaker. LOL.

Alternately, I seem to recall boot disks beingthe word of the day for DOS
systems. Even if you can't get the system to boot with the cd working
natively, you should still be able to use a regular old boot disk any time
you want to use the CD rom.

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.
 
JTW said:
Microsoft has 4 DOS related groups that you can try:

microsoft.public.basic.dos
microsoft.public.vb.dos
microsoft.public.win3x_wfw_dos
microsoft.public.win95.msdosapps
microsoft.public.works.dos

They will probably start by asking if you have the CD-ROM device driver
loaded in the config.sys file (example: device=oakcdrom.sys
/D:mscd001), and the initialization within the autoexec.bat file
(example: LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%) [both examples
taken from a general Win 98 DOS boot disk).

You can also look at this reference:

http://www.techadvice.com/tech/C/CDROM_DOSSU.htm
Click to expand...

The m.p.basic.dos newsgroup has had no traffic in 2 years. You may have
to go to a newsgroup hosted elsewhere, perhaps a hardware-related NG.
 
Thank you very much to all that answered!! I appreciate you're help. What
I did was, and I don't know why I didn't do this earlier, was to go to
Microsoft's knowledge base. It gave me examples on how to set it up. What
I ended up doing was, copying the "CD1.SYS" file from my Win98 startup disk
and placing it in the DOS directory. I made the changes in config.sys and
all is fine now. By the way, this is for a secondary experimental machine,
and to answer the question, yes, this is the pure DOS ver. 6.22. I've been
using computers for many many years, and just for kicks I wanted a legacy OS
to fool around with. I also have Win 3.1 setup on the same partition. :)
Thanks again!
 
Mike said:
JTW said:
Microsoft has 4 DOS related groups that you can try:

microsoft.public.basic.dos
microsoft.public.vb.dos
microsoft.public.win3x_wfw_dos
microsoft.public.win95.msdosapps
microsoft.public.works.dos

They will probably start by asking if you have the CD-ROM device driver
loaded in the config.sys file (example: device=oakcdrom.sys
/D:mscd001), and the initialization within the autoexec.bat file
(example: LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%) [both examples
taken from a general Win 98 DOS boot disk).

You can also look at this reference:

http://www.techadvice.com/tech/C/CDROM_DOSSU.htm
Click to expand...

The m.p.basic.dos newsgroup has had no traffic in 2 years. You may have
to go to a newsgroup hosted elsewhere, perhaps a hardware-related NG.
Click to expand...

Try reading the group directly from Microsoft's server with a news
reader or their Web interface.

The last on topic post I see in microsoft.public.basic.dos was just
posted April 10, 2006 (The April 17 message was SPAM). On topic traffic
is SLOW, but not quite non-existent. Note that the topic for that group
is BASIC (acronym for Beginning All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
programming language in a DOS environment, so inquires about getting a
CD recognized in Windows 9x DOS Mode would be off topic.

The microsoft.public.vb.dos is for the DOS version of Microsoft's Visual
Basic programming language (MS doesn't use caps for the acronym for
either the DOS or Windows Visual BASIC), so CD ROM access issues would
be off topic there as well.
 
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