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Installing Windows 98 from Floopy drive
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Name: Sanoj George
Date: October 18, 2000 at 08:48:12 Pacific
Subject: Installing Windows 98 from Floopy drive
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Comment: I Have Problems trying to load Windows 98 on 30 computers which are not networked,and every computer has no cd-rom and i ahve only the Windows 98 cd, i would appreciate if anyone could give me a suggestion to install Windows 98 From a floppy drive.
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Response Number 1
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Name: sagie
Date: October 18, 2000 at 09:45:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hy,
There is no possibility to install Win98 from floopy.
but, my suggestion is to buy an external ZIP drive (250 MB) and copy to the drive the install files.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Pitch
Date: October 18, 2000 at 09:59:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Windows 98 is available on floppy disks from Microsoft. They are not the normal floppy disks and they're about 20 floppies for the installation. However, the problem is that once you use the floppies once on an installation, you can't resuse the floppies for another one. So this sounds like it would be quite expensive to do. You might want to call Microsoft for any other options that may be available.
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Response Number 3
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Name: horder
Date: October 18, 2000 at 10:08:12 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)why zip?
you can use IDE Harddisk (i think it takes not so much time
to connect hard disk to comp)
BUT FLOPPY - DONT EVEN TRY TO THINK ABOUT IT
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Response Number 5
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Name: xx
Date: October 18, 2000 at 11:54:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Why not buy one external cd rom and use it on all the machines and use the cd rom disk. Sounds a lot easier to me.
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Response Number 6
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Name: Sassquatch
Date: October 18, 2000 at 14:06:51 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If all the PC's are the same configure one and ghost the rest. All you have to do is configure one yank the hard drive and put it into the next pc to configure and clone the drive using Symantec's Ghost application.
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Response Number 7
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Name: bob b
Date: October 18, 2000 at 16:48:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)or you can just buy one internal CD Rom Drive and just plug it in as slave copy wins98 folder to HDD and remove CD Rom start setup from HDD C:\wins98 setup and while that installs move on to next pc
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