I am trying to install Windows 98 on a clean Compaq Armada Laptop.. I use Windows 95 startup disk and am installing Windows 98 from CD ROM Drive.. It copies about 20% of the files to HDD and then aborts with a fatal error message which reads as follows : SUWIN caused Segment Load Failure in Module SUWIN.EXE at 0002:621A. I am not able to proceed further. Can anyone please help me..

Can you find out if your BIOS support CD-ROM booting, as win98 can be used as a bootable CD, just like floppy disk. If you can, boot to CD, run FDISK, clean-up the last installation, then change to the CD drive and run setup from there - (so one CD can have 2 letters - A:\ to the bootable part of floppy, where D:\ (or whatever the letter that win98 allocated for it) is the CD data part.

When you say clean can I assume that you formatted the hard drive? If that is the case you can over come your lack of an operating system by running oemsetup.exe instead of setup.exe.I am wondering how fdisk is going to cleanup anything. Oh well, good ideas don't always work.

Wong's advice is sound. Further, if your system won't boot from CD (via changing BIOS boot options), have a friend create a Win98 startup disk for you. This will allow CD access, along with the correct version of DOS startup files. If you still get the SU errors, your Win98 CD may be dirty or damaged. (SUWIN calls .dll files during the Windows setup, so it's a little unusual the message would be coming up during the file copy phase.) Also, there may be an issue with your particular system, in which case you should check Compaq's website or tech support for info. Another bit of advice: Be sure any PCMCIA cards are OUT of the system during the entire Win98 install, or you may have to reload. Leaving cards in during setup can corrupt Windows' PC Card services.

good advice already. i'm backing cd read problem. dirty disk one possibility - here's another - power supply problem. sorry, not as easy to fix.

Thanks for all the advise.. I tried each of them and finally figured it was the CD which was corrupted or something.. Tried installing of a new CD and it just went fine.. THANKS AGAIN