Greg,

         Reinstalling CDOS (REal 32) is not straightforward. I ran into
similar problems several years ago after a hard drive failed. The solution
was to reinstall the "Loader" file, which needs to reside in a specific
part of the boot record.

         Are you installing CDOS and ISODAT onto this drive for the first
time? If so, then this next bit of info in not necessary, but if you have a
version of isodat already installed on this computer, or if you want to
save the "important" (calibration, gas configurations, sequences, old data
etc) on another computer, then before you do anything else back up the
ISOTST directory (this directory stores ALL the pertinent information which
is unique to your machine, including calibration values etc) and the
ISOBASE directory. Rename them as backups and store them in another folder
(not the isodat folder).

         Now, reinstall Real 32 off the floppies that came with your
instrument. Go into DOS and uninstall Loader

C:Real32/Bin/loader/u

Reinstall Loader. This should solve the Real 32 problem.

Continue with the isodat installation and when done, copy your backed up
ISOTST and ISOBASE directories into the root directory.

                         Good Luck,
                                         Joe






08:24 PM 1/7/05 -0800, you wrote:
>Finnigan users,
>       Im trying to install CDOS on a PC to run our 251 ms.  The
>installation guide says insert disk and reboot, but I get a "non-system
>disk" error.  I tried I booting to the C drive and then switch to the A
>drive wihich has the CDOS disk, and try the "installh.bat" file and it
>looks like its trying to install, but I get a bunch of "Echo off ", "syntax
>error" and "file not found" messages.  In the end it says "your
>installation is complete" and there is a CDOS dirrectory on my Cdrive, but
>the all files from the A drive are not in the CDOS Directory.  When I
>finally reboot I get DOS and not the "Do you want to load concurrent dos"
>prompt....
>I tried copying the CDOS from the A drive to C:, but I still cant get CDOS
>to reboot...Any old school finnigan users have any suggestions?
>
>Greg
>
>
>Greg Michalski
>Stable Isotope Lab, 5108 Urey Hall
>University of California, San Diego
>9500 Gilman Dr.
>La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0356
>858-534-6053

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