Windows Install Problem

[moogoo]

Hi,

I was doing a clean install of windows 98 SE on a system with A) 512MB hard drive
B) 64M RAM
c) 486DX/66 Proc

I boot to the CDROM Drive and the system does an initial check of the registry and all then a message: Windows Startup needs 7340032 bytes on your" then stops (I am assuming that it is in the HD) CMOS memory reads:

640K RAM
39936K Extended RAM
384 KB Shadow....has anybody have suggestions?

 

[wolluf]

what's the status of your hard drive? (ie, is it unformatted, or does it by any chance have just one very small partition - too small for windows to copy install files too?)

 

[moogoo]

I repartitioned and reformatted with large disk supprot enabled and FAT32 one partition on a 516MB drive

 

[pcbytz]

Hi
Check below and make sure your PC meets all these requirments and you have enough space on your Hard Drive.

A personal computer with a 486DX 66 megahertz (MHz) or faster processor (Pentium central processing unit recommended).
16 megabytes (MB) of memory (24 MB recommended).
A typical upgrade from Windows 95 requires approximately 195 MB of free hard disk space, but the hard disk space may range from between 120 MB and 295 MB, depending on your computer configuration and the options that you choose to install.
A full install of Windows 98 on a FAT16 drive requires 225 MB of free hard disk space, but may range from between 165 MB and 355 MB, depending on your computer configuration and that options that you choose to install.
A full install of Windows 98 on a FAT32 drive requires 175 MB of free hard disk space, but may range from between 140 MB and 255 MB, depending on your computer configuration and the options that you choose to install.
One 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive.
VGA or higher resolution (16-bit or 24-bit color SVGA recommended).
Good luck
pcbytz

 

[moogoo]

Thanks all,

After all the good suggestions I decided to reformat the hard drive and select not to enable large disk support and BAM! I guess with the hard drive so close to the limit listed in fdisk my only option was FAT 16.