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>You must read the message regarding software licenses in
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>the Section called <I
>Third Party Software Licensing and Temporary Files</I
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>To access your CDROM in DOS, you must download an IDE CDROM driver.
Bochs emulates a very generic CDROM drive, and several drivers are known to
work. Others don't. This section describes how to set up your
<TT
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>config.sys</TT
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>autoexec.bat</TT
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>The drivers that have been reported to work are
<TT
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>OAKCDROM.SYS</TT
> that comes with several versions of Windows
and <TT
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>SBIDE.SYS</TT
> version 1.21 from Creative
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> and OAKCDROM.SYS that comes with several versions of Windows.
Copy the driver to your boot disk, and then set up the startup files as follows.</P
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>config.sys:
device=himem.sys
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:CD001
-or-
device=sbide.sys /D:CD001 /P:1f0,14,3f6
autoexec.bat:
mscdex.exe /M:10 /D:CD001</PRE
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>If the files mentioned in <TT
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pathname, like <TT
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>c:\windows\himem.sys</TT
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>To use the SB16 device in DOS you need to load a driver for it. The file <TT
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>SBBASIC.EXE</TT
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>C:\SB16</CODE
> you can execute <TT
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>INSTALL.EXE</TT
>
to install the driver. The file <TT
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>DISK.ID</TT
> should contain the version
string <CODE
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>SDR-31STD-1-US (Revision 1)</CODE
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>On the Web there are bootdisks available for most of the DOS versions ever released,
but some of them have been reported to fail in Bochs. The bootdisk for MS-DOS 1.25
contains a boot sector of a newer DOS version, so it would fail on real hardware,
too. The floppy image for MS-DOS 2.11 has a boot sector that tries to boot from
hard disk instead of the floppy.</P
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>To get it, go to <A
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>Creative Labs web
site</A
>, click on Support, then click Download Files. You get to a screen
where you must select the operating system and the product for which you want
the driver. Choose DOS as the operating system, and "CD-ROM: 4x and above" as
the product. There are several choices, but you want
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>sbide121.exe</TT
> from April 15, 1997. Version 2.0 does not
work. The download file is a self-extracting ZIP file, so on
DOS or Windows you just run it; on other platforms you can try using
the unzip command. The driver is called SBIDE.SYS. </P
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