load caldera dos onto a bootable cd disk?

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I have downloaded the complete Caldera Dos vsn 7.02 onto my hard
drive.

Could someone give me information on how to transfer this onto a blank
cd disk that would give me a cd disk that would enable the computer to
boot up from the disk in dos mode?

All replies welcomed!

Aaron in N. Hollywood
 
I have downloaded the complete Caldera Dos vsn 7.02 onto my hard
drive.

Could someone give me information on how to transfer this onto a blank
cd disk that would give me a cd disk that would enable the computer to
boot up from the disk in dos mode?

All replies welcomed!

Aaron in N. Hollywood
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Someone suggested recently:
D\load WinISO and use it to make an .iso of the floppy, then burn it to CD.
HTH.
bw..OJ
 
I have downloaded the complete Caldera Dos vsn 7.02 onto my hard
drive.

Could someone give me information on how to transfer this onto a blank
cd disk that would give me a cd disk that would enable the computer to
boot up from the disk in dos mode?
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i checked the ftp site
and they are self-extracting executables...
so just put in your blank floppy and double click on the disk-image
you want to extract...

if you went to some other site that has disk images...
they also have a disk writing utility on the site...along with exact
instructions
 
[email protected] said:
I have downloaded the complete Caldera Dos vsn 7.02 onto my hard
drive.

Could someone give me information on how to transfer this onto a blank
cd disk that would give me a cd disk that would enable the computer to
boot up from the disk in dos mode?

All replies welcomed!

Aaron in N. Hollywood
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You want to make a bootable CD using only freeware - this is the
procedure.

This is what you need

1. a bootable floppy disk. ]
If you have downloaded Caldera DOS as an image set the first image might
be bootable, otherwise get a bootable image from www.bootdisk.com. The
win98se is probabley the best to use as it already has CD drivers
installed. From memory this will be an .exe file which will create a
bootable floppy. Whatever you use make sure it will boot with CD
support.

2. a floppy disk imaging utility. There are a few but the only reliable
one I have found for this purpose is dd (dd.zip - do a search on the
webpage - its about three quarters of the way down) on Barts bootable CD
page - http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/. Read the page, it has much
information, however I find Barts method of creating a bootable CD over
complicated.

3. a cd burning app that will make .iso files. Deepburner is ok. I use
the portable version found at www.portablefreeware.com

4. a utility called mkbootcd from
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA004958/bootcd/index_e.html
It comes as mkbtcd1.zip and includes a bootcatx.bin file you will need.

Procedure.
These utilities are all commandline driven, except deepburner, so be
prepared to open a command window and do some typing. Easiest way is to
make a 'project' folder and copy all the required files there.

1. use dd to make an image of your bootable floppy. (the command is dd a:
boot.ima)

2. rename the bootcatx.bin file to bootcat.bin

3. use deepburner to make an iso file. Start up as for a normal
multisession CD, add bootcat.bin and boot.ima **important - in that
order**. Instead of burning to disk, select the make iso option. Lets call
this file bootdos.iso

4. use the mkbootcd utility with this commandline
mkbootcd bootdos.iso bootcat.bin boot.ima -m
(or whatever names you created) This will make the iso bootable.

5. burn the modified bootdos.iso to cd and test it to make sure that it
boots.

6. back to windoze and add any files to the CD as another session ie.
Deepburner append/input option.

Finished. The CD will boot to a dos A:\> prompt. Your files will be on
whatever drive letter has been assigned by the CD drivers.

A simpler way (but not free) is to use NeroBurning and a bootable floppy ;-)
 
Hi Rich: thank you thank you for the very informative reply. The
very last line of your suggestion says "a simpler way (but not free) is
to use Nero Burning and a bootable floppy"

I DO have Nero burning software. If I use Nero, at what stage in your
list of instructions should I use it to start burning? best, Aaron
 
You want to make a bootable CD using only freeware - this is the
procedure.
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This is a followup to my previous post. It has been a couple of years since
I looked at (Caldera) DR-Dos and some things - not the OS - are still
screwed.

I downloaded the 'lite' , no network version which uppacks to 3 floppy
images + utilities.
The makedisk.exe utility for some reason would not work on my (XP) machine -
my advice is get rawwritewin from here;
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm
rename the *.144 image files to *.img and use rawwritewin to write them to
floppy disk.

the first floppy is bootable, boots into an install mode but there is an
option to make a 'boot' floppy.

The boot floppy is a bit basic, only the OS, and it has no CD drivers even
though they are called by autoexec.bat!
You need to put them in yourself. Also AFAIK DR-DOS has no fat32 support so
when you boot it off a CD there is a good chance that none of your HD's will
be seen. Win98 scores on that point.

Anyway, bottom line is why waste all this fiddling about. I have archived
the basic files - a DRDOS boot img (with cd drivers, fdisk & format), the
previously mentioned files, except DeepBurner, and a basic DRDOS .iso which
you can burn to a CD then add files in another session.

this is at http://rapidshare.de/files/9346420/makebootcd.zip.htm

for anyone interested (its about 800 kb)
 
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