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please help. i know this is a vista newgroup but i could not find a win 98

group.



i am installing win 98 se for a friend of mine. hard drive is fully

formatted. i put the start up disk and the dos promt comes on. i use cd

support and then i get to the d drive for the cd rom.



so I am at the d prompt, the cd drivers are installed and seing my cd rom.



now for the life of me, i cannot remember what dos command to type in here

to get the cd to kick in.



i tried several



cdwin 98



cdwin_98



setup



I am lost.



TIA







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ok now that I've dusted off my dos user manual you have to type dir/p/w

that will let you see what is on the rout dir of the cd.

you have to type setup.exe

ps you can get all the dos commands by typing help ;)



"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

And how hard did you try?



microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion



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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

Watch the screen carefully to see which drive is assigned to the cdrom.



drive D: is usually a RAM drive



If (for example) drive E: is assigned to the cdrom...

at the C: prompt simply type and enter E:





now just type and enter setup



and the installation should begin





NOTE: There still are a number of win98 groups so you may want to post

thetre if you have add;l questions





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Kevin Oye wrote:



Frank

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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

I'm pretty sure it is setup. Do a DIR and see what shows upon the CD.



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"Kevin Oye" wrote:



please help. i know this is a vista newgroup but i could not find a win 98

group.



i am installing win 98 se for a friend of mine. hard drive is fully

formatted. i put the start up disk and the dos promt comes on. i use cd

support and then i get to the d drive for the cd rom.



so I am at the d prompt, the cd drivers are installed and seing my cd rom.



now for the life of me, i cannot remember what dos command to type in here

to get the cd to kick in.



i tried several



cdwin 98



cdwin_98



setup



I am lost.



TIA







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tried setup.exe I get a bad command or file name







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"Andrew" <haloman2@gmail.com>wrote in message

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didn't work out



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"Frank" <fab@notspam.com>wrote in message

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Kevin Oye wrote:

Frank

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:57:19 -0400, "Kevin Oye"

<oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote:



Sounds like you didn't change the BIOS to BOOT from the CD. Try this:



a. Go to your BIOS and change so the CD drive is the FIRST boot

device.



b. Shut Down system.



c. Place the Windows 98 CD in the CD drive, close door.



d. Restart. If things go correctly you should be on your way.



If all else fails and assuming your still running some version of

Winnows on this box try copying the entire contents of the Windows 98

CD to a new folder on the root drive. Once done, go to this folder and

there should be some obvious file setup.exe or something, so long I

forget and click on that and that may do it.



Once working ok with the new OS installed go back to BIOS and change

back to boot from the hard drive or the system will waste time trying

to start from the CD drive.



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The name of the executable is setup.



From the command prompt, type SETUP and press Enter ...









"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

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"Frank" <fab@notspam.com>wrote in message

If he is booting from a floppy that is true, else he needs to be at the

command prompt of the drive that is the CD ROM drive. Typically, the CD is

drive D or E.







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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message



Boot from the Win 98 startup diskette.



Make a note of the CD drive letter allocation..



When you get to the A prompt, type the allocated letter of the CD drive,

followed by a colon..



Press <ENTER>



Now type <dir>



You should see the list of files contained on the Win 98 CD..



Type SETUP, then press <ENTER>



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Jeff Strickland wrote:



on second read.

I'm only assuming he's referring to a floppy.

Frank

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I tried to boot from the CDROM but it gave me a failure notice.



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"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net>wrote in message

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"Frank" <fab@notspam.com>wrote in message



Good call, I assumed he was booting from the CD, but on second thought it

occurs to me that 98 will not boot from a CD.



If this is true, then he has to enter <drive>:\setup from the boot location

command prompt.













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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

Win98 CDs were not bootable. You needed the boot floppy with your CDROM

drivers on it.



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Jeff Strickland wrote:

setup.exe and hit enter.

Frank

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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message



Tutn the machine on. Insert the CD then hold the power button until it shuts

down. Now start the machine. It should run automatically.











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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message



alt.windows98









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Kevin,



Sounds like you are correctly at the CD-ROM drive letter, but it all depends

on what CD you have as to where the Setup.exe file is located.

If it's a Retail CD then Setup.exe is in the Root of the drive and that

should have worked, but obviously not per your answer.

Do you know what version CD you have?

On some of the MSDN CD's there were several versions of Windows and you

have to type the path to the folder where their located.



Example for Win98

Type: CD\Win98 Press Enter

Type: Setup Press Enter

Type: Setup Press Enter



Example for Win98-SE

Type: CD\Win98_SE Press Enter

Type: Setup Press Enter

Type: Setup Press Enter



Try booting again from your floppy disk and this time type the following

after you switch over to your CD-ROM drive letter.



dir /w /p Press Enter

Note the spaces between "dir" "/w" and "/p"



The "w" is the Wide switch

The "p" is the pause switch

If there's a lot on the screen just press Enter to move down.



This should show you what's on the disk and the path where the Setup.exe is

located.



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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

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i see the setup.exe file there on the d drive but nothing happens when I

type this command in







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"SG" <sorry@nomail.com>wrote in message

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yea umm people he is installing windows 98SE not windows 98

"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

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Hmm, well I've no idea why then. If you see the Setup.exe on the CD and you

are on the D: drive then there's no reason it should not start.



When you boot from the floppy it tells you what drive letter is assigned and

you are sure it's D: correct?



Now type the following and lets try once more to be sure you are doing this

correctly.

Type: D: and press Enter

Then type: Setup and press Enter





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"Kevin Oye" <oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote in message

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SG wrote:



and type in the command...setup.exe.

Frank

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Kevin Oye wrote:



prompt then type in the command setup.exe

Frank

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:33:28 -0400, "Kevin Oye"

<oyescontracting@inbox.com>wrote:



Did you change you BIOS to BOOT from D?



That should be all that's necessary, then turn the computer on again

with the CD in the drive and Windows should boot from the D drive,

find setup.exe all by itself and start to install.



There seems to be a lot of back and worth, answer two questions:



1. Are you trying to boot from a floppy or a CD?

2. Have you changed the BIOS setting?



I have no idea why you're trying to install a 10 year old version of

Windows. You're just asking for all kinds of problems in doing so.



I suspect your real problem is either you didn't change BIOS or you

don't have a clue what I'm talking about. To get to BIOS you need to

press one of the Fkeys or Delete. What exactly depends on your

computer and which key or key combinations are detailed in the

computer manual or the motherboard manual if you build it from

scratch. You need to enter BIOS IMMEDIATELY once you computer starts

up and BEFORE it has a chance to start the current version of Windows.

If you wait too long you need to try again.



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