How to install OS on an OLD 486/66Mhz?

[reddog4629]

The hard drive and cdrom cables plug into the sound card. It's a Soundblaster 16 CT2230 . How do u install an OS without cdrom drivers or how do you get the cdrom to work? Had W'95+ on it before I formatted it. Now I'm stuck. :(

[NDC]

Are you using a Panasonic/MKE, Sony, and Mitsumi CD-ROM drive with this soundcard? Looks like the

[skuz]

DOS CD drivers use standards IDE I/O addresses. A sound card's IDE port doesn't use a standard I/O. Check in your CD driver and sound card documentations to know what address it uses and how to set the driver to use it.

[wizofid]

right in front of my eyes - sound modem and ide controller - has cd rom in - sound and ide ditigtal as well - ?

ISA 16 bit card - longer than all get out??

old dos files or search for the drivers - let me run over an old hard drive I have to see if it specs anything!

it was working up until I stripped the case for a p233 rebuild.

wiz

edit - I had it running error free on a 486 - 20.5mhz - :jaw:

I did it just as a lark - and I really like fooling with the old stuff!

[reddog4629]

The CD-Rom has Soundblaster on the front of it.

[NDC]

Well, according to here, not all CDROM drives have intergrated support. And you may want to see if the jumper setting is correct...

http://www.phethean.com/AUDIO/SB16FAM/CT2230.HTM

[Mntsnow]

The other thing you might try (and I have done in the past when I really needed to get it up and running quickly) is to slave the HD into another machine and create a folder on it called "winsetup" (or whatever you want to name it) and copy the contents of the CD to it. Then replace it back into the other machine and launch the install directly from the HD (a plus to this is that the copy/install goes QUICK since it's writing back to itself!)

Also you need to install drivers for the "soundcard CD's interface in DOS before you can get the CD to work. Thus the Above solution is the quickest.

[smokin]

I have set up a lot of systems such as that using a boot disk called cdromgod..I think this is the right link
Cdromgod (http://www.computers.pcc.edu/~troubleshoot/aplus/cdrom.htm)
:)

[jadison]

BTW, Welcome to XtremePcCentral Smokin!
Enjoy the forums, and the site :)

[smokin]

Thanks for pointing me here jadison
:D

[NDC]

Hey, what's up, Smokin? Glad you dropped by! :)

[Axel]

sorry folks - but I find it hard encouraging this - I have to ask - why bother?

before going through the research and pain involved - I'd have to know why go through the exercise?

There are some good reasons - but a lot of bad ones.....

you can get a junk board and processor for about $30 that would beat the daylights out of this combo and give you a lot less grief - heck - I'd bet people here would send you a scrap board......

so after you get over your old dos game fix or whatever reason you're rebuilding this boat anchor - it's going to sit in a closet....

as far as antiques go - sorry - I'm not a fan - if I can't make use of it to run a SETI client at the very least - it'll be scrapped for parts....

[vass0922]

486 with no hard drive, just a floppy drive = Very light linux firewall :P

:D

Set the floppy to write protect, so if your box IS compromised reboot :rolleyes: