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dos 6.0 to win98?
Name: Marbs Date: April 26, 2002 at 22:04:43 Pacific
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hi everyone, i have decided to give up on installing win 3.1 on my 486 dx2/66 because of setup problems i have been consistently encountering. i have now decided to run win 98 on it instead, and i still have a setup problem. i am using the version for pc's without windows, the only os i currently have on it is dos 6.22. when i begin the setup it says that the computer already has an os on it and i should exit setup,reboot from the hard drive and run setup again. well fair enough but i would have thought that you would be able to install it over dos, so i proceeded anyway and sure enough i get a general protection fault error and thats the end of the setup. is this to do with fat16 and fat32? i have a celery 400 running win 98 (which i'm using now) so should i plonk the 486's hard drive in as slave and format it as fat 32, then put it back in and try again? or should i just reformat from the 486 itself, not install dos, and boot directly from the win98 boot disk? i know theres nothing wrong with my win98 disk cos its brand new and i took it out of the box just yesterday. i have copies of both dos 6.0 and 6.22, so no problems with wiping and reinstalling there. thanks in advance marbs
Name: mmesh Date: April 26, 2002 at 22:27:10 Pacific
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Look at the second post under you...
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Response Number 2
Name: Xander Date: April 26, 2002 at 23:42:37 Pacific
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Format hard drive and reinstall DOS, should take about 15-20min to do this.
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Response Number 3
Name: user error Date: April 27, 2002 at 14:40:42 Pacific
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if you want to install 98 dont fool with reinstalling dos yes you should just reformat from the 486 itself, not install dos, and boot directly from the win98 boot disk
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Response Number 4
Name: user error Date: April 27, 2002 at 14:43:24 Pacific
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oh yeah it would be better if you formatted from the 98 boot disk itself rather than a dos boot disk.
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Response Number 5
Name: Xander Date: April 28, 2002 at 10:00:52 Pacific
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For me DOS installs the mouse driver and memory managers. When I tried to install Win 98 without it setup would always freeze up.
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