DOS Boot Disk

[thatrenowned]

I need a boot disk which does the following:

* Loads up my CDROM for DOS
* Loads up my mouse for DOS
* Loads up my sound card for DOS

The biggest problem is that the sound card is a Sound Blaster Audigy. Obviously I don't expect to get it working perfectly, but does anyone know if it has a feature like some other SB cards where you can use SB16 emulation?

I need all this because I have a program which only runs in DOS and uses sound and your mouse, and you need the CD to start it.

Thanks for your help

Regards

 

[Eguy]

thatrenowned;

Did you look on your SB installation CD?. I have SB Live 5.1 on one of my PCs and its instal CD has DOS drivers on it.

Ed Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[Chasville]

Do you have DOS? Which version?
What version of Windows are you running?
Most people use Win98SE for games.
Most people who need to boot different OS's have like a 128 MB DOS partition on their Hard drive and a boot menu program.

DOS has to be the first partition on a hard drive.
I believe Win98SE has a DOS mode boot option.
If you install a DOS partition, then intall DOS to C:\DOS and use that for a base directory for the drivers.
If you use Win98SE DOS mode then use c:\WINDOWS

Config.sys will need the following lines:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\emm386.exe noems
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=100
BUFFERS=13
STACKS=9,256
DEVICEHIGH=C:\___________________ ....
rem fill in the location to the cdrom DOS driver software

in the Autoexec.bat file you want lines like
c:\cdrom\mscdex.exe /D:MSCD000 /L:G
c:\dos\mouse.com

Now install the sound card to the DOS system.

 

[Hungster]

Here is a easier way to do it, i had been using it for years
make a bootable floppy disk
format it and copy systems file over

then
grab these files
-edit.com
-himem.sys
-MSCDEX.exe (11/05/98 Date)
-oakcdrom.sys
-smartdrv.exe
-mouse.com

and then create config.sys and autoexec.bat using notepad
Config.sys >enter the following info on it
device=himem.sys
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001

Autoexec.bat
MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001
smartdrv.exe
mouse.com

Done !
If you need a SCSI version, please let me know

Hope this will help

 

[mainegeek]

Have you tried creating a short cut to the program file
and launch it from a dos box from your desktop?