Win98banter - View Single Post - Windows 98 Install with floppy drive or disk

**Ben Myers[_3_]** · October 11th 08, 02:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup

"Dave Smith" Dave wrote in message ...
Hi Everyone
In order to play a couple of games and run a few programs that will only run
on Windows 98, I am trying to re-install it on a disused PC which was running
XP.
I have gone through all the normal Fdisk and partitions pages. I restart it
and go through the windows install pages.
So I select "Start Windows 98 from CD Rom"
Click Enter to setup Windows
After a couple more screens I get to the Windows 98 Setup page and click
continue
I get the "Setup is preparing to install windows" message after which it
asks me where I want it installed (All so far so good).
So having selected c:\Windows.000 from the options I click next
Now it checks for "Installed Componants" and moves onto "Checking available
disc space"
Here's the problem - the disc space checks get as far as 61% at which point
if flashes up a message saying "Insert diskette for Drive B: and press any
key when ready". Now not only do I not have a start diskette, I also don't
have a floppy drive to insert it in on this machine.

Try cleaning the CD. Also, as mentioned by another poster, if you are trying
to do a clean install, you should probably format the partition or deltree the
existing Windows directory.

Ben