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Old May 4th 08, 03:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Default having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os

My suggestion: Use IsoBuster to extract the contents of the Win98 ISO. All
you need from this ISO is the folder named WIN98. The rest is generally
useless. Make a bootable CD and copy the WIN98 folder to it. Boot to the CD
and then run SETUP.EXE from the WIN98 folder.

But my preferred method is: If you made your original bootable CD from a
WIN98 Startup floppy disk, then you should be able to run the following
command:
SYS C:
Then copy the WIN98 folder to the hard drive, remove the CD, restart and
you'll get a C:\ prompt. Run the following commands:
CD WIN98
SETUP

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"xskarmah" wrote in message
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I got a laptop free and wanted to install 98 on it, a clean install for my
nephew. I burned a bootcd, and managed to format and partition it, my
trouble
starts because I dont have another disk drive to put the iso I have in, I
only have the one drive, the laptop does not have a Floppy drive.


Any suggestions? Whenever I try and use any setup commands I get invalid
media trying to read disk