On a floppy disk A, how do I navigate to my C drive?

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This subject better asks my question, now that I know that the problem is that the bootup floppy disk with MS-DOS isn't recognizing my C drive. I searched and a website said that with larger hard drives it may be due to a "disk drive overlay" not being loaded by the time I boot up the floppy. My hard drive is 80gb running on a somewhat-old Pentium II-based computer, so I thought the "disk drive overlay" might be my problem, but then for a solution it says on the website that it should say "Press *key combination, such as CTRL+Escape* to boot from floppy" and that if that message does not appear then I probably don't have DDO-- I don't get the message.
Any help now?

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

I'm trying to install DragonLinux. To do so, I have to go to DOS (from a bootup flopy disk, since I'm using Windows 2000), then navigate to C:\DRAGON\setup\ and run setup.bat there.
The problem I'm having is DOS doesn't want to leave the A:\ drive as its working directory. I've tried typing "cd C:\" and "cd C:" and "cd C" and "C" and "C:" and "C:\" etc etc etc.. all without quotes, of course. I usually either get something like "invalid drive" or "invalid directory."
Any help, anyone? Please reply as soon as possible. Thanks!

Have you tried making the linux boot floppies as theres usually a folder on the install CD to produce them from?

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Originally Posted by Archer

Have you tried making the linux boot floppies as theres usually a folder on the install CD to produce them from?

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Nope...
On www.bootdisk.com I saw there are DOS floppies "for Linux users," is this what I want?
I don't have a Linux CD, because the distribution I'm using I downloaded and extracted to C:\DRAGON (which it says to do in the FAQ at the DragonLinux website).

So should I download the Linux-user floppy disk instead of the regular DOS disk (both are at www.bootdisk.com)

Well.. the other floppy disk didn't work either. They seem almost identical.

Any ideas now?

The directions for Dragonlinux only mention Win98 or 3.1. Are you using fat32 or ntfs? Have you tried running the install from inside Windows--start, run, cmd, enter, then navigate to the directory that contains Dragonlinux?

The directions for Dragonlinux only mention Win98 or 3.1. Are you using fat32 or ntfs? Have you tried running the install from inside Windows--start, run, cmd, enter, then navigate to the directory that contains Dragonlinux?

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Originally Posted by MobilePCPhysician

The directions for Dragonlinux only mention Win98 or 3.1. Are you using fat32 or ntfs? Have you tried running the install from inside Windows--start, run, cmd, enter, then navigate to the directory that contains Dragonlinux?

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Not sure how to find out if I'm using FAT32 or NFTS. And I've tried installing from within Windows- doesn't work, it says an error message. Have to install from DOS.

Try this:

DragonLinux v2r1 CD Quick Start
http://dragonlinux.sourceforge.net/readme.php

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Originally Posted by Archer

Try this:

DragonLinux v2r1 CD Quick Start
http://dragonlinux.sourceforge.net/readme.php

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I've read that thoroughly. What I need now is for my boot disk to recognize my C harddrive.

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Originally Posted by josh1billion

I've read that thoroughly. What I need now is for my boot disk to recognize my C harddrive.

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tis pretty obvious that your machine is in the NTFS file system ,win2k is by default (is,nt it) check in system properties/disk or even stick a win98 cd in and type FDISK and see if it says non-dos partition.

as the proggy only uses 130-150meg why dont u just find a spare hard drive , fat32 is not gonna go on an ntfs drive without a lot of work.



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