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| Thread ID: 32414 | 2003-04-18 03:02:00 | Installing Win98 SE via network or hard drive | skink (3621) | Press F1 |
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| 136630 | 2003-04-18 03:02:00 | Hi My friend has a laptop with no cdrom drive and wishes to do a clean install of Win98 SE. He is getting a network adaptor (PC card) so I was wondering if it is possible to install the OS via the lan? Failing that, if I partition the hard drive and copy the contents of the win98 directory of the Win98SE cdrom to D:\WIN98\, is it possible to install the OS from D:\WIN98\setup.exe to C:\windows (where D: is the extended partition)? Any help or advice very much appreciated. Cheers Sharrea |
skink (3621) | ||
| 136631 | 2003-04-18 03:47:00 | WELCOME TO PRESSF1..... ENJOY YOUR STAY Although I have not had any first hand experience on this particular type of matter, I did nearly experience the stress of not having a CD-Rom drive as mine was faulty (... still is). I believe providing you have a way of linking two computers together, you should be able to put the CD Disc into the drive in PC1, and be able to copy it onto the harddrive of PC2 (the portable computer). From there, you should be able to run the setup smoothly off the hard drive. If you don't have a network card, you should be able to use a serial cable and a MS-DOS program to copy. Sorry, I don't know much about it, but I'll go and ask the others, they should know :D Good luck, |
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| 136632 | 2003-04-18 04:07:00 | assuming he has a floppy drive use a boot disk that has network support (lan card drivers etc etc) and bott pc into dos and access the network then can run the setup off the cd/hd drive of the networked pc. or do what you suugested, partition the drive, copy the cab files over to the partition then he can then format c: and run the setup from the other partition. if you don't want to partition, copy the cabs over to a folder then boot from a boot disk and delete all folders except the cab folder. then run setup from cab folder. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 136633 | 2003-04-18 05:32:00 | Thanks guys, just what I needed to hear. Its been a while since I used Windows (Linux these days) and was hoping the answer wasn't gonna be "sorry, cdrom only". The separate partition on hard drive sounds easier, so I don't have to worry about getting the network going in DOS (hehe... cos I don't know how) ;) You've both been a great help. And thanks also for the welcome :) Cheers Sharrea |
skink (3621) | ||
| 136634 | 2003-04-18 06:06:00 | Don't have to copy the whole CD, just the win98 directory. There is a setup.exe in there which you use to start the install. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 136635 | 2003-04-18 08:26:00 | Thanks, will do . Cheers Sharrea |
skink (3621) | ||
| 136636 | 2003-04-19 00:13:00 | The separate D: drive with the win98 .cab files on it is the best way to go. If you need to add any Win98 components later then the Laptop will not moan that it can't find the setup files. ;) | Elephant (599) | ||
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