On 01/20/2017 11:54 AM, Lee wrote:
On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 8:49:58 AM UTC-7, Dobbins etc wrote:
I am trying to install Win98 onto a flash drive (in my case 8 GB flash)
as detailed he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qd7cDbtwj4

I get as far as the "Microsoft ScanDisk" screen during installation of
'98 onto the flash drive, but then I keep getting hanging during the
"directory structure" scan. Any ideas would be welcome.

I should mention that I did encounter one issue during set up detailed
in the video: where it says to reformat the flash drive as FAT, I was
presented with only FAT32 and NTFS options. I went with FAT32 after at
least one person said they had success (and I wasn't sure how to
reformat to FAT if I didn't have the option presented).

Thank you

setup /c /it /p a;b (spaces after c, it & p)
forces 98 onto the only drive it can see which would be the only FAT or FAT32 partition on your NT machine usually. But this means you are installing 98 onto C:/. Are you? It sounds like the wrong command has 98 DOS trying to deal with NTFS partitions and it can't do that.

Other major issue is the amount of RAM you have installed, usually NT boxes have way too much for DOS to handle properly. The shown tip about changing the line in [386Enh] section actually is dangerous as it only appears to work, it can't possibly cope with 1 or 2 or 4 or more gigs of RAM.

SATA driver issues may also be a problem, along with dual core processor which 98 also doesn't do and many more issues that we don't have a clue about since we don't know what machine or with what hardware this is being done on.


Thanks. This is an old Toshiba Satellite with IDE and 64 MB RAM. I'm
trying to install onto the flash drive using the setup command you have
above that was designated in the video as well. The flash was formatted
into FAT32 before starting the process. If I try to skip Scandisk by
also adding /is, it does so but then stalls at copying files for set up.