Problem installing OS on DTK computer

[Justbill 0]

A friend of mine has a DTK computer. He wants to dual boot WinXP and SuSE 9.3. I have repeatedly attempted to install XP on this box, to no avail! It seems to format and copy the files alright, but when it reboobts, we get an "error loading operating system" message. On one of the install attempts I entered an install for setting up "SCSI or RAID" and was prompted to insert "manufacturers install disc" . I don't have this disc (and neither does my friend) so I dropped in a blank floppy, in the hopes that the machine would further tell me what it wants, and it did (I think). I got a message that the "txtsetup.oem" files could not be found. I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking I need those! So my question is, if that is what I need, does anyone know where I might be able to download them from ( I tried DTK site, and got nowhere), and can I download them on my SuSE 9.3 box, burn them to a cd, and transfer them to floppy on another machine (my machine has no floppy drive)? I did install Fedora Core 4 successfully on this machine and it boots fine! And I tried to install Win98 on it and that wouldn't install either. Score = Linux 1, M$ Windows 0. :-) . This computer has a PRM-92V EO motherboard , 256mb ram , 533mhz Pentium III processor, and a 60gig hardrive. If anyone has any thoughts on this (other than the trash can) they would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Justbill

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Originally posted by Justbill:

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A friend of mine has a DTK computer. He wants to dual boot WinXP and SuSE 9.3. I have repeatedly attempted to install XP on this box, to no avail! It seems to format and copy the files alright, but when it reboobts, we get an "error loading operating system" message. On one of the install attempts I entered an install for setting up "SCSI or RAID" and was prompted to insert "manufacturers install disc" . I don't have this disc (and neither does my friend) so I dropped in a blank floppy, in the hopes that the machine would further tell me what it wants, and it did (I think). I got a message that the "txtsetup.oem" files could not be found. I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking I need those! So my question is, if that is what I need, does anyone know where I might be able to download them from ( I tried DTK site, and got nowhere), and can I download them on my SuSE 9.3 box, burn them to a cd, and transfer them to floppy on another machine (my machine has no floppy drive)? I did install Fedora Core 4 successfully on this machine and it boots fine! And I tried to install Win98 on it and that wouldn't install either. Score = Linux 1, M$ Windows 0. :-) . This computer has a PRM-92V EO motherboard , 256mb ram , 533mhz Pentium III processor, and a 60gig hardrive. If anyone has any thoughts on this (other than the trash can) they would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Justbill

 

It is asking for the manufactures drivers for the raid controller your trying to setup.

 

you will need to goto the manufactures website and download the winxp driver package and put them on a floppy disc or cd-rom so you can point the install to it when it prompts for the manufactures disk.

 

When you extract the drivers, you will have a folder with many other folders in it such as Win9x, Win95, WinNT, ect..

 

The file txtsetup.oem should be the root of them all, and should keep the same structure when put on the floppy disk. So when the install process reads drive A: it will immediately find txtsetup.oem and list the avail drivers you can install

 

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[Justbill 0]

That DTK website is kind of a joke. I got redirected to the VIA website, and the best guess I could find is the "Hyperion Pro" download. I looked in it after it downloaded, and it does have the "txtsetup.oem" file so I'll give it a whirl. The download was a little over 6mb so I obviously wont get it all on a floppy. I suppose I'll put it on severall floppy's a little at a time. I'll be giving it a try tomorrow, as this computer is at work.

 

Thanks

Justbill

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You can get by with just putting the root files and the folder for the xp drivers, you dont really need to copy the win9x or other folders that do not go with your os your installing on.