Installing Windows 98

[bikerb40]

Hi
I am trying to set up Win 98 on a seperate drive and believe I have reformatted the drive?
This is what comes up when booting from a 98 startup disk..."Windows setup required 7340032 bytes on your C: drive."
C:\>
I type in "setup" at the dos prompt...and it states "Setup will now perform a routine check on your system"
It does the check and and I end up back at ..."win setup requires....and then C:\>.
I'm going around in circlesand getting very dizzy...does anyone have some suggestions?
Thanks

 

[bikerb40]

Would have edited the last message...don't see the option/
Just wanted to add that I have typed in "setup" also at Drompt...same circle happens...

 

[edfair]

How much free space on C:?
What are you trying to accomplish? Putting 98 on d: will be fine, but it will want to control your c: also. And this doesn't sound like what you want to do. Ed Fair
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[bikerb40]

Hi
I have a seperate hard drive(C) that I am trying to install Win 98 on and keep going around in circles...I have gotten so far as to installing the system files(15 on them)on the drive. Just OMIT the second statement I made about the D: drive.

 

[edfair]

Maybe you ran out of space. Think 98 has 67 cab files.
How about detailing the steps you take to do the install.
Normal is to boot from floppy with cd support. Move to cd, run setup. Should fdisk and format for you and then load it. Ed Fair
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