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

[josh1billion]

EDIT:

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!

[Archer]

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

[josh1billion]

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

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)

[josh1billion]

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

Any ideas now?

[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?

[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?

[josh1billion]

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?

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.

[Archer]

Try this:

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

[josh1billion]

Try this:

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

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

[freddy]

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

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.



freddy