How would I go about making my own DOS cd-rom drivers? I know I can get some from bootdisk.com, but one, my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, and two, the usb port on my old computer doesn't work.. so if I can manually make one (copy)..
Any ideas?
you don't have any sort of net access on the notebook? oh pain. maybe time to buy a USB floppy drive (assuming the notebook can boot one).
I don't think there's any way to "copy con" yourself a cdrom driver. 😀 they sorta need to be compiled and stuff.
In theory, you could UUencode the driver and then type it out manually on the laptop.
In the unlikely event that there is no UUdecode utility on the laptop already (most decompressors support it), there are also versions of UUdecode that can be typed out manually, perhaps even with "copy con" if you wanted to.
It would be mighty tedious, though, and of course you can't make one mistake.
let me get this right
you have a laptop with a cdrom but no cdrom driver, no floppy disk and no usb
and you want to put a cdrom driver on it - yes ?
use a null modem cable
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Don't you need software to use laplink or null modem cables for file transfer? 😀 Also need the cable too.
Thx for the replies, can lock this topic if you want, I'll just have to do something way less complicated.
Locked because this topic scares me.
