Author: Chessfun
Date: 07:11:31 02/10/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 08:07:45, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>On February 09, 2000 at 19:22:16, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>I have had MCP8 about a year now and am finally installing it
>>to my 2nd computer.
>>
>>But when I try to install from a dos prompt I get incorrect file.
>>Per the manual either INSTALL D: C: won't word neither will
>>from windows start menu d:\install.bat. Lastly I tried directly
>>from dos but when I run only in dos it won't even recognize my
>>CD drive at D:\.
>>
>>This computer has win98, the other win95.
>>
>>Any help is appreciated.
>>Thanks.
>
>Hi!
>
>Have you tried: go to the start-menu, chooese the DOS-prompt and exit the Win
>-catalog, then install d: c: I tried it now and 10 seconds later it was
>installed.
>
>Remember to play in pure DOS otherwise you can´t use any hash-tables at all.
>If you don´t have CD-drivers under DOS you can use the start-disc that comes
>with your computer it supports the CD.
>
>McP8 checks the CD from time to time, before you start it in real DOS (with no
>CD) start in WIN-DOS and check the CD, after that you can reboot and start in
>pure DOS.
>
>Bertil
Bertil,
Thanks....seems I had no CD dos driver's installed.
But I still had the original CD driver disk.
Loaded the driver install d: c: worked fine.
Thanks.
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