USB CD/DVD support for MS-DOS

On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

You can put the Windows 98 CD on the Hard Drive and run setup for there
For same time I have to do that way to get windows to fine usb CD/DVD
drive!
But you will miss that XP in One to Two Weeks



"philo" wrote in message
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On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

You can put the Windows 98 CD on the Hard Drive and run setup for there
For same time I have to do that way to get windows to fine usb CD/DVD
drive!
But you will miss that XP in One to Two Weeks



"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

On 5/16/2010 09:18, glee wrote:
"Bill Blanton" wrote in message
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On 5/15/2010 17:32, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc


As an alternative, you might be better off installing one of the
various Linux distros. You can probably find something decent within
your SSD size constraints that also supports USB and SATA. I'm not
familiar with the eee pc, but I doubt you'll find 9x drivers written
for whatever devices are included with the machine.


The best OS for this unit is the Ubuntu Netbook Edition, although I
think that may be the OS that was on it originally....the OP may have
removed it:


Or possibly Xandros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

"Newer models have added the option of Windows XP..."

On 5/16/2010 09:18, glee wrote:
"Bill Blanton" wrote in message
...
On 5/15/2010 17:32, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc


As an alternative, you might be better off installing one of the
various Linux distros. You can probably find something decent within
your SSD size constraints that also supports USB and SATA. I'm not
familiar with the eee pc, but I doubt you'll find 9x drivers written
for whatever devices are included with the machine.


The best OS for this unit is the Ubuntu Netbook Edition, although I
think that may be the OS that was on it originally....the OP may have
removed it:


Or possibly Xandros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

"Newer models have added the option of Windows XP..."

"Hot-text" wrote:

You can put the Windows 98 CD on the Hard Drive and run setup for there
For same time I have to do that way to get windows to fine usb CD/DVD
drive!
But you will miss that XP in One to Two Weeks



"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

.

I still like Windows 98 Second Edition the best but it is limited compared
to what Windows XP can do but it is also a fun operating system. I love to
be able to get deeply into its guts and mess around with DOS and tinker with
system settings. It really is fun but takes a great deal of skill and older
legacy hardware to run properly nowadays. You also cannot allow yourself to
get frustrated and many times must manually search for a file that modern
operating systems like XP find right away when installing a device. You may
have to force ME and 2000 drivers to accept 98 Second Edition by manually
configuring them so I do not suggested for the average user anymore. This
may make the system less stable again unless you know what your doing and
sorry I don't have the time or inclination to try and help everyone with
their Windows 98 Second Edition troubles especially on a newer system but I
will do my best as time allows.

"Hot-text" wrote:

You can put the Windows 98 CD on the Hard Drive and run setup for there
For same time I have to do that way to get windows to fine usb CD/DVD
drive!
But you will miss that XP in One to Two Weeks



"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

.

I still like Windows 98 Second Edition the best but it is limited compared
to what Windows XP can do but it is also a fun operating system. I love to
be able to get deeply into its guts and mess around with DOS and tinker with
system settings. It really is fun but takes a great deal of skill and older
legacy hardware to run properly nowadays. You also cannot allow yourself to
get frustrated and many times must manually search for a file that modern
operating systems like XP find right away when installing a device. You may
have to force ME and 2000 drivers to accept 98 Second Edition by manually
configuring them so I do not suggested for the average user anymore. This
may make the system less stable again unless you know what your doing and
sorry I don't have the time or inclination to try and help everyone with
their Windows 98 Second Edition troubles especially on a newer system but I
will do my best as time allows.

Then get a Old PC put 550MB of Ram it and a 60GB Hard Drive
make C:\ 1 GB for DOS BOOT Drive
D:\15 GB for Win98
E:\ 44 GB for win2000

For I DID and it works out good!


"Dan" wrote in message
...
"Hot-text" wrote:

You can put the Windows 98 CD on the Hard Drive and run setup for there
For same time I have to do that way to get windows to fine usb CD/DVD
drive!
But you will miss that XP in One to Two Weeks



"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have
tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that
for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works
fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

.

I still like Windows 98 Second Edition the best but it is limited compared
to what Windows XP can do but it is also a fun operating system. I love
to
be able to get deeply into its guts and mess around with DOS and tinker
with
system settings. It really is fun but takes a great deal of skill and
older
legacy hardware to run properly nowadays. You also cannot allow yourself
to
get frustrated and many times must manually search for a file that modern
operating systems like XP find right away when installing a device. You
may
have to force ME and 2000 drivers to accept 98 Second Edition by manually
configuring them so I do not suggested for the average user anymore. This
may make the system less stable again unless you know what your doing and
sorry I don't have the time or inclination to try and help everyone with
their Windows 98 Second Edition troubles especially on a newer system but
I
will do my best as time allows.

Then get a Old PC put 550MB of Ram it and a 60GB Hard Drive
make C:\ 1 GB for DOS BOOT Drive
D:\15 GB for Win98
E:\ 44 GB for win2000

For I DID and it works out good!


"Dan" wrote in message
...
"Hot-text" wrote:

You can put the Windows 98 CD on the Hard Drive and run setup for there
For same time I have to do that way to get windows to fine usb CD/DVD
drive!
But you will miss that XP in One to Two Weeks



"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/16/2010 08:04 AM, glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 05/15/2010 04:32 PM, Alphanumeric wrote:
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no
internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have
tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked
(until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that
for
USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same
for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works
fine,
but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the300MB of
win98SE
instead.


If your bios supports booting from USB
take that option
then just boot from your win98 cd

that assumes it's bootable


the ones I have are but I do not know if all win98 cd;s are bootable

"Retail" Win98 discs are not bootable.
The OEM discs generally were bootable, but I'm not sure an OEM copy
would be a good choice.

Win98 is probably not a good choice altogether, not the least of the
reasons being there won't be drivers available for this hardware.



yes

you are right...there would not be win98 drivers
so the OP would have a very limited Win98 installation

I'd probably just stay with XP
and put any data onto an external drive
or just plain bite the bullet and get a larger drive

I've seen 32gig drives for about 100 USD

.

I still like Windows 98 Second Edition the best but it is limited compared
to what Windows XP can do but it is also a fun operating system. I love
to
be able to get deeply into its guts and mess around with DOS and tinker
with
system settings. It really is fun but takes a great deal of skill and
older
legacy hardware to run properly nowadays. You also cannot allow yourself
to
get frustrated and many times must manually search for a file that modern
operating systems like XP find right away when installing a device. You
may
have to force ME and 2000 drivers to accept 98 Second Edition by manually
configuring them so I do not suggested for the average user anymore. This
may make the system less stable again unless you know what your doing and
sorry I don't have the time or inclination to try and help everyone with
their Windows 98 Second Edition troubles especially on a newer system but
I
will do my best as time allows.

Until he tale us the Make and Model of he PC we can not help him ...

When I know that I be able to tell him Start the Computer ,, Chick ? to go
to Setup in setup you can turn the Pug-and Play for USB
For The PC Setup is Before DOS




wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 May 2010 14:32:01 -0700, Alphanumeric
wrote:

I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked (until
I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same for
USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine, but
it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the 300MB of win98SE
instead.

I dont think you can use USB ports from Dos for anything. They're not
recognized. You can buy a used CD drive for pennies these days, just
get one of them. Heck, a local garage sale will likely get you a
complete used older computer for $10 or less and it will come with a
CD drive.