Thanks to all. I've been swamped with urgent family and health matters, but will get to all of your suggestions ASAP. I will write a follow-up once done. Thanks again.

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Follow-up. Here is what I did and what the result is. I entered c:\Dos\memmaker the memmaker program started up just fine and the end results are as follows. Memory type Free conventional memory Before: 576,224 After: 627,760 Change: 51,536 Upper memory Before After Change used by programs Before:16,880 After: 67,760 Change:50,880 Reserved for Windows Before:0 After: 0 Change:0 Reserved for EMS Before:65,536 After: 0 Change:-65,536 Free Before: 39,216 After: 53,904 Expanded memory Before: enabled After: disabled Question: Why am I still getting the messsage after starting Windows 98 setup:I get to the point where I choose "Typical" setup and shortly after that the following message keeps coming up. NOT ENOUGH DISK SPACE. There is not enough disk space to set up windows 98. Quit setup and free some more disk space.Then rum setup again. DriveC: has insufficient free space You will need to free an additional 12.5MB to set up Windows 98 with no optional components. To set up windows 98 with the recommended optional components you need to free 33.9 MB My Partition reads as follows: Partition c:1 Status A Type PRI DOS Volume Label MS-DOS_6 Mbytes 1221 System FAT16 Usage 100% If you can add any help towards this frustration, please do so. Thanks again. Gerry Jam

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Please read this posting result first before reading the additional comments I made at the end. ORIGINAL REPLY POSTING:From Name: DoOMsdAY Date: October 29, 2000 at 07:30:55 Subject: Win98 SE install challenge on older system Reply: I'm sure by "The Pirate" you mean butt pirate. Why don't you go out to recess and play with the other kiddies instead of trying out your newfound dirty words on a web board? Gerry, your boot disk you created from your other system will most probably not have format.com and fdisk.com on it - the two files you need to create partitions and then format them. Warning: Make sure you have nothing you want to keep on your old system as the following will destroy any data on the drive. First off, go to http://www.bootdisk.com and follow one of the links to download a Windows 98 boot disk - it will be the one that normally comes with the 98 CD. Follow any instructions on the site with the boot disk as each place does it a little differently as far as extracting the disk to a floppy. After that's all done, boot your old system with the boot disk. You will get a boot menu - choose to not load the CD-ROM and boot into a command prompt (don't know the exact wording.) Every time I tell you to reboot from here on in, choose that menu option when prompted until I say otherwise. When at the A:\> prompt, type fdisk [Enter]. You will be prompted if you would like to enable large disk support, choose Yes. (That's how you allow it to create FAT32 vs. FAT16 partitions.) Now you should be at a screen that allows you to create partitions, delete partitions, display partitions and create logical drives I believe. You want to delete partitions. First off, though, choose option [4] Display Partition Information (or whatever) to see how many partitions you have defined. If you have logical drives in extended partitions, you have to delete those first, then the extended partitions, then the primary partition. So after you see what you have, back out to the main menu and choose the option to delete partitions and choose as is appropriate to remove them in the above stated order. When that's all complete, choose to create a partition - then a primary partition. When prompted, choose Yes for "Use full disk and make active". Let it go, then [Esc] out of the program when it's done. You will need to Ctrl+Alt+Del and reboot as it will say when you're back at the DOS prompt. When once again at the A:\> prompt (after a reboot), type format c: /u [Enter]. It will warn you that this will destroy all data, choose Yes to continue. It'll probably take a while. When it's done, it'll ask you for a label. Just hit [Enter] at that prompt. When you're finally at the A:\> prompt again, reboot and this time choose the option from the boot disk startup menu to install Windows 98. That should do it - post if you have any problems. After following the above instructions I was able to get past the Not enough Disk Space Message. The install went 100%, I rebooted, then I got a message something like, type in the integrated command example ( or something like that ). The example I was given was C:\Windows\Command.com.Not knowing what exactly I was doing or to do, I typed in the exact example but got the same message.I rebooted with the Win 98 startup disk and when asked, I chose to start with CD-Rom support.I got to the A:\prompt and eventually located the COMMAND.COM line in my D drive. I rebooted once again with the Win98 startup disk and at the A:\ prompt I entered my CD-Rom drive letter in my case it was E:\, went through the entire install process again and when asked to type in the integrated command I typed D:\COMMAND.COM. and got the same frustrating message. In frustration I rebooted again with the Win98 startup disk in drive A:\ , again, when asked how to start, I chose to start with the CD-Rom support. After the reboot I was at the A:\ prompt. I inserted the DOS 6.22 disk 1 and typed setup, I was prompted to press Control+Alt+Delete to reboot with Disk 1 in Drive A:\. This began the Dos 6.22 install process.Unfortunately during this process the Dos program began to automatically format my C drive, I could not stop this process.After the Dos 6.22 program was finished, I removed disk 3 and rebooted to finally come up at the C:\ prompt. I inserted the Win98 CD in the CD-Rom, typed D:\setup and the windows setup program began without any problems.After approximately 45 - 60 minutes, the program was installed.I chose the "compact" setup.From there I was able to pick and choose what I wanted and didn't want.After the entire Win98 program was installed, I rebooted then I installed Microsoft Office 2000. It seems that the issue of RAM when installing windows 98 on a 486 66Mghz with only 24 megs of RAM really didn't matter, as I found out. Foot Note: Will I be acquiring more RAM? YES!!. I will boost my RAM up to at least 32 megs in the near future. Good luck to all who can follow my experience with hopeful success. Gerry Jam.

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