MS-DOS problem in XP and more ...

[saurya_mishra]

Hi,

i have got a big problem here .. the problem is exactly the one mentioned in digit magazine march 2005 page82 ... the 'question of the month' ... now i have two doubts regaurding the solution to the problem given there..

1. in the first part the digit people asked to type in some command in command prompt ... i typed in EXACTLY what they had written(of course i gave the right CD-ROM drive letter)... but as i press enter the following is displayed

No destination specified for l:\ .......

i hope u got it ... similar error for each of the commands ...

2. the second solution give is to open notpad files and type in and save them ... there, should i replace "%SYSTEM ROOT%" with the location of the system32 folder on my computer ?

please help me ... i am expecting ur answer soon

saurya

[grinning_devil]

write down the complete problem .. will u ??
its a bit of problem to search for the mag to have a luk at the problem ... u know "lazy bones"..!!!

[hafees]

Let me find page 82 .... done!
(1) i think the digit people forgot u to tell that u should put ur WIndows XP CD in the CD Drive.

if u already 've a copy of xp setup in the harddisk replace the path with that.

(2) %SYSTEMROOT% is environment variable. just test by echoing it (in the command prompt :
echo %SYSTEMROOT%) so u dont need to replace anything.

(btw, if the first works, then no need of 2nd)

[khattam_]

Originally Posted by hafees

Let me find page 82 .... done!
(1) i think the digit people forgot u to tell that u should put ur WIndows XP CD in the CD Drive.

if u already 've a copy of xp setup in the harddisk replace the path with that.

(2) %SYSTEMROOT% is environment variable. just test by echoing it (in the command prompt :
echo %SYSTEMROOT%) so u dont need to replace anything.

(btw, if the first works, then no need of 2nd)

What other environment variables do you know?? Can you list them. I know %systemroot%, %temp% and %username%............. There should be more...........

[aadipa]

Google gave me this link

http://kennethhunt.com/archives/000933.html

[saurya_mishra]

digit asked to replace three files : autoexec.nt command.com config.nt ...i found some of these in the repair folder of windows ...can i replace them from there ?
by the way what is this problem actually ... i mean what caused it ...

[saurya_mishra]

thanks everybody the problem is solved ... u wont belive the autoexec.nt file was not in the system32 folder ... so i put it there and it was solved ... THANKs whol heartedly