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After having explained the installation of the ICP Controller and the host-drives in chapters

B and C, we now explain how to install the operating system MS-DOS. By using some ex-

amples, we shall demonstrate how to partition a host-drive, transfer MS-DOS to the host-

drive, install Windows 3.x and use a CD-ROM drive (standing for any other Not Direct Access

Device) under MS-DOS. In addition, we will give you further information on how to install

Windows 95.

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The structure of the Host Drives, which have been installed with GDTSETUP (in chapter C),

is not known to DOS. i.e., the operating system does not recognize that a given Host Drive

consists of a number of hard disks forming a disk array. To DOS this Host Drive simply ap-

pears as one single hard disk with the capacity of the disk array. This complete transpar-

ency represents the easiest way to operate disk arrays under DOS; neither DOS nor the PCI

computer need to be involved in the administration of these complex disk array configura-

tions.

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You can partition the host-drives installed in chapter C with GDTSETUP as well as with the

MS-DOS program FDISK. However, in our explanation we shall only use GDTSETUP. For

further information on FDISK, please refer to your MS-DOS manual. During the following

installation instructions we assume that there is not yet a boot disk in the computer sys-

tem. Therefore, the following steps aim at installing a primary DOS partition on the host-drive

previously installed with GDTSETUP (see chapter C), activating this partition, and transfer-

ring MS-DOS to this partition. Our objective is to be able to boot MS-DOS directly from

this partition at the end of the installation. First of all, we would like to draw your attention

to a common operating error which is often made when Host Drives are partitioned. Many

users ignore that an MS-DOS boot partition has to have the state

"active"

. If the partition

is not active, the system will attempt to boot MS-DOS, but will "hang" straight away. Very

often, the system message "ROM BASIC NOT FOUND, SYSTEM HALTED" is displayed (in

the 40 lines of text mode). You can easily remedy this problem by booting the system from

an MS-DOS floppy disk, and then activating the partition with GDTSETUP (more informa-

tion later in this manual) or FDISK (for more information on FDISK please refer to the

MSDOS user's manual).

(A)

As already mentioned before, you can load GDTSETUP in two ways. For the partitioning,

GDTSETUP has to be loaded from disk under MS-DOS:

Boot the MS-DOS-operating system (either from a boot-floppy or from an already existing

boot drive, i.e., IDE-hard disk etc.).

(B)

In order for GDTSETUP to work properly, you have to load the device driver GDTX000

first. This can be done in two ways:

Load GDTX000 from the MS-DOS command level by typing in GDTX000<ENTER>, or

load GDTX000 automatically through the CONFIG.SYS file (DEVICE=GDTX000.EXE).

Load GDTSETUP from the MS-DOS command level by typing GDTSETUP<ENTER>.

Note: GDTSETUP.EXE as well as GDTX000.EXE are on the System Disk - DOS.

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