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msdos program problem
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Posted by: lanphierddm
I am having a problem installing an older program in dos which is where it needs to be installed. I have winXP pro on my pc and also win98se installed on a seperate partition with FAT16.{this is where I'm trying to install the dos program}the program{or game} I'm tring to install is STONEKEEP which comes on a cd. It lets me type in D: for the d drive but when I type in INSTALL which the stonekeep manual says to do it tells me bad command or file name. someone told me that I need specific dos drivers for my cd drive, mouse, keyboard, video and sound sound card. I've looked online for these and connot find them and would'nt know how to install them if I could find them. I'm using a compaq presario. any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
dave
Posted by: DemonBob
Youre cdrom should be able to work in dos.
Goto dos and type "dir" w/o quotes and post a couple of lines that come up.
Posted by: redwench
better make that
dir/p or dir/w
Posted by: DemonBob
oops. hehe forgot out the switchs. THanks wenchy. Been ages since i used dos
Posted by: lanphierddm
when I type in dir\r or dir\w it says that the volume in drive c has no label and also says file not found
Posted by: redwench
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Posted by: BooRadley
Is D your CD drive or you Win98 drive? If it's your CD drive, try typing:
dir
It should give you something more than just:
 Quote:
D:\>dir
Volume in drive D has no label
Volume Serial Number is 1929-16ED
Directory of D:\
. <DIR> 10-15-03 5:43p .
.. <DIR> 10-15-03 5:43p ..
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If that's all it's showing you, then either your CD is bad, or your machine won't read it correctly, and you're going to have to come up with something else. If it will at least show you SOME files, then try typing:
dir /s instal*.*
It should give you a full path to the install program, then run it with the explicit path.
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