How to Install a Cd-rom on a 486

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mike

hi,
Im trying to install a cd-rom drivers onto some older 486 computers.
I have tried all this without success, the motherboards bios in my
opinion is just too old to detect the cd-rom, also one of the
motherboards doesn't come with a secondary IDE connector.

So, is there a way to make this work?

Thanks
Mike.
 
A 486 mobo won't detect a CDROM in the bios, but it will show up in 9x/NT.
You can do a quick functionality check by loading a DOS cdrom driver. If it
works, you're on.
 
mike said:
hi,
Im trying to install a cd-rom drivers onto some older 486 computers.
I have tried all this without success, the motherboards bios in my
opinion is just too old to detect the cd-rom, also one of the
motherboards doesn't come with a secondary IDE connector.

So, is there a way to make this work?
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You'll need a MS-DOS device driver for your cd-rom.

Most just need mscdex.exe in your autoexec.bat and it's
the only thing the driver will do, in most cases. Look
it up using google or sumfn.
 
mike said:
hi,
Im trying to install a cd-rom drivers onto some older 486 computers.
I have tried all this without success, the motherboards bios in my
opinion is just too old to detect the cd-rom, also one of the
motherboards doesn't come with a secondary IDE connector.

So, is there a way to make this work?

Thanks
Mike.
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even if the bios does not detect a cd rom, you can do so from the OS
itself.
win95 will automatically detect the cd rom...
but with dos, you will need to install the drivers

on your machine with no secondary ide channel
merely connect the cdrom as slave...
on the primary channel
 
win95 will automatically detect the cd rom...
but with dos, you will need to install the drivers
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that's true.

i've been wanting to install linux on an old p60 (olivetti m4 modulo 82)
and making the linux boot diskette required me to transfer the rawrite
and image to the HD - PC runs 95 currently - and make the boot disk in a
DOS prompt.

no biggie.

but, when trying to install, things seemingly always came to a halt when
the CD-ROM was being called - i'm not certain of this, but have had no
luck making a regular old DOS boot diskette with a CD-ROM driver, either
- i guess the system can't cater for a CD-ROM during boot-up?

the bios - ami '95-ish - have no option for a CD-ROM device.

any ideas?

;-)
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