Luuk Beurskens wrote:
Q: Installing the minimal context distribution on a Windows 98 machine gives problems when copying on harddisk E:. Running the batch-file cscite.bat results in the following message: "cscite root, e.g. cscite d:\copyofcdrom" (more info: C: exists but D: is a non-writable linux partition).
This maybe a "feature" in your Windows installation and may occasionally turn up with installation from CD and such. I've stumbled on this problem several times with earlier versions of Windows (95, 98, NT) - the common nominator for all was that Windows had been installed from CD to unpartitioned hard disk and thus the CD drive letter became D. After another hard drive was added or the existing one partitioned in two, the CD drive or similar moved to become drive E. Unfortunately, this kind of changes didn't always make it to Windows registry and thus programs still attempt to use D when they mean E. Once upon a time I knew how to fix this in a Windows-only computer, but don't unfortunately remember very well any more how to do it. I think it involved time and some careful searching in the registry editor to get rid of all the obsolete D letters. This is the main reason why I still change my drive letters in a new Windows to R for read (for CD reader) and W for write (for CD/DVD writer), so additional hard drives don't 'push' them. Nowadays I just go crazy with a multitude of external USB devices trying to use each other's drive letters or network drive letters and not showing up as result; I'm seriously running out of alphabets on my work XP! Good Luck, Mari the Windows user