loadwindowsCD -- Load the Windows installation files from the Windows CD
Syntax
loadwindowsCD [options]
loadwindowsCD cddevice dev_name [options]
loadwindowsCD fromdir dir_name [options]
unloadwindowsCD
Description
loadwindowsCD
The loadwindowsCD command loads the Windows 95 or Windows 98
installation files from your Windows CD into Win4Lin.
This is a required one-time step that must be done before individual users
may install Windows in a personal directory using the installwindows
command.
The CD can either be accessed through the local CD-ROM drive or mounted
in a Linux directory.
You can also load the Windows installation files by
using the Win4Lin Setup GUI utility.
If you do not use either the
cddevice or fromdir option,
the installation will be done from the default CD-ROM drive.
The default CD drive is specified in the file /etc/default/merge
using the MERGE_CD_DEV_NAME environment variable.
If you use the cddevice option, dev_name is the name of
the Linux CD device that corresponds to the CD-ROM drive you are using
to install from (for example, /dev/cd0).
If you use the fromdir option, dir_name is the name of
a Linux directory where your Windows CD has been mounted, or where the
Windows installation files from a CD have been copied.
The following additional options are also supported:
- subdir xxx
- Specifies the subdirectory on the CD where the Windows installation
program and files are located.
If this is not specified and if the Windows files are not in the top
directory of the CD, then the subdirectory win95 or win98 is used.
- reinstall
- Allows reinstallation of the files from the Windows CD. If this
option is not specified and Windows files are already loaded, the
installation will not continue.
Warning, reinstalling a different version of Windows than was
previously installed may result in a user's personal installation
of the other version of Windows to stop working.
unloadwindowsCD
The unloadwindowsCD command reverses what loadwindowsCD
has done. This is useful if the original load failed to complete or
if you want to load a different version of Windows.
The loadwindowsCD "reinstall" option automatically does
the equivalent of unloadwindowsCD before re-loading from the CD.
Warning, reinstalling a different version of Windows than was
previously installed may result in a user's personal installation
of the other version of Windows to stop working.
Files
/usr/bin/loadwindowsCD
/usr/bin/unloadwindowsCD
/etc/default/merge
See also
win(1)
installwindows(1)
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