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installing 98 on new system w/o floppy
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Name: mike
Date: April 1, 2001 at 16:05:27 Pacific
Subject: installing 98 on new system w/o floppy |
Comment: I want to install 98 on a new computer system and cannot find my floppy. I may not have received one from the start. Do I need the floppy or is just the 98 cd enough? This is a completely new computer with no windows or anything installed. If I need this floppy, is there a web site I could download this? Thanks,
Mike
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Response Number 1
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Name: Nick
Date: April 1, 2001 at 16:58:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You may be able to do it without a floppy,
but I don't know how either, but you can
easily make one with any computer that
has win 98 (and a floppy drive)
To do this, go to the control panel, open
up add/remove programs, then there
should be a tab at the top that says
startup disk, go to that tab, and click the
button that says "Create startup disk"
Wait till it's done, and you've got
yourself a startup disk. I just had to do
this yesterday, so it's fresh in my mind!
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Response Number 2
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Name: Buckshot
Date: April 1, 2001 at 17:18:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I just finished installing 98 on two PC's this weekend, so this is fresh on my mind. You'll want to format the drive, I prefer doing so using a DOS 6.22 startup disk with the basic DOS files plus the fdisk and format command files. I then use another startup disk that lets you boot to DOS, and then install from CDROM. You shouldn't need any other disks. If you try to install and there's already an OS on the Hard drive, it will error and say so.
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Response Number 3
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Name: kjanx
Date: April 1, 2001 at 17:53:46 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)hey fella, those posts are all wrong.
go into bios, change the boot sequence to cd-rom,a: c:
then you can boot with the win98 disk.
under no circumstances use dos 6.22
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Response Number 5
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Name: Doeboy
Date: April 1, 2001 at 19:35:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Mad Mike has the answer... DO NOT use dos... or... there is a file on the windows 98 cd that will make a bootdisk for you... just a sec... i'll go find it...
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Response Number 6
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Name: Doeboy
Date: April 1, 2001 at 19:38:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)k, got it... the program fat32ebd.exe in the \tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd directory makes a Windows 98 bootdisk. For all that is good and descent, DONT use a dos bootdisk... bootdisk.com is a good site, good drivers there if the Windows 98 one doesnt work right... also, the bios boot sequence works sometimes...
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Response Number 7
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Name: B
Date: April 1, 2001 at 21:49:34 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)you can go here
http://jason-n3xt.org/dos/#OTHERDISKS
and download a 98 startup disk
have a formatted floppy ready to extract it to.
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