re: Where is W98's DOS-Level Setup option?
Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 6:55 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Donna R
(437 messages posted)
when you started the computer with the boot disk did it give the option to start
with cd support? if not you need a boot disk that does. if so, and you can't access
the cd drive then maybe you can burn a bootable cd and set the bios to boot first
from the cd.
if you do get cd support, at the a drive type the letter for the cd drive. it won't
be d, it will be something else as the ram drive takes up a letter. if you're unsure
what drive you're in, at the drive prompt (such as e:\ type dir and that gives the
directory of what's in the drive. if it is the cd drive just type setup at the prompt
and and nothing else, press enter.
have you formatted the drive if you want to do a clean install? you'll need your
drivers, your reg. number, and a windows 98 cd since this is an upgrade.
On Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 3:41 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>I'm sure that I've gotten a Win98 SE Upgrade CD to install from a DOS Command Line,
>but the only copy of anything named Setup.Exe in the CD's \Win98 directory (there
>is another equally reluctant Setup.Exe in the CD Root Directory) says it doesn't
>run from DOS. It's my thought that the floppy that came with the CD had something
>to do with the capability, but that floppy's copy of the CD driver has problems
with
>a LiteOn Combo CD/DVD drive. So I used an image file from Bootdisk.Com to have
support
>for an optical drive, but hit this impasse about the Setup.Exe version.
>
>And I think it's got something to do with what's in the floppy startup files, but
>they "look fine" to me. Maybe it's just been way too long since I have tried doing
>much with DOS!
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>Kiwi
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