Install OS ?'s

I'm trying to install W98 on a very old and slow puter
with a Pentium (r) processor. I didn't realize how long
it was going to take. I originally had 95 on it. I had to
re-format, and tried to re-install 95 on it. However, I
learned that two of the 13 floppy installation disks were
damaged. So, I'm trying to install 98. After about 8
hours of installing files (about 80% done), the hurricane
here in Florida decided to relieve me of my power, and my
install was interrupted. This happened twice!!!

What I was wondering was: can I take the HD out and
install it into another faster machine, install 98 onto
the drive, take it back out, and replace into my slower
machine? Also, when I insert this drive into my faster
machine, can I put it in as a slave to the master, and
still be able to successfully install 98 on it, and put
it back in slow machine, and everything work?

A driver file is built during setup so it is a crap shoot on whether or not
the system would work correctly once you put the drive in the older PC.
There is no reason why an install should take 8 hours on a Pentium
machine--something is drastically wrong. I installed W98 on a P133 with 32
mb of ram in less than an hour. Tell us how you are going about installing
the system, what the specs are, type of PC, etc.

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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"DRIFT-O-MATIC" wrote in message
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I'm trying to install W98 on a very old and slow puter
with a Pentium (r) processor. I didn't realize how long
it was going to take. I originally had 95 on it. I had to
re-format, and tried to re-install 95 on it. However, I
learned that two of the 13 floppy installation disks were
damaged. So, I'm trying to install 98. After about 8
hours of installing files (about 80% done), the hurricane
here in Florida decided to relieve me of my power, and my
install was interrupted. This happened twice!!!

What I was wondering was: can I take the HD out and
install it into another faster machine, install 98 onto
the drive, take it back out, and replace into my slower
machine? Also, when I insert this drive into my faster
machine, can I put it in as a slave to the master, and
still be able to successfully install 98 on it, and put
it back in slow machine, and everything work?

-----Original Message-----
A driver file is built during setup so it is a crap
shoot on whether or not
the system would work correctly once you put the drive
in the older PC.
There is no reason why an install should take 8 hours on
a Pentium
machine--something is drastically wrong. I installed
W98 on a P133 with 32
mb of ram in less than an hour. Tell us how you are
going about installing
the system, what the specs are, type of PC, etc.

I agree, it should not take this long. I started the
process of setup yesterday, when our power came back on.
It's just now setting up hardware and finalizing
settings. That started about a half hour ago, and it's
still not done! The machine has a Pentium (r)
processor. 128 MB ram. I'm not sure what the processor
speed is; but it's never been this slow before. I can't
remember what I did in the BIOS. I was trying all kinds
of stuff there when I was having trouble with it booting
up a start up disk. I think I selected "failsafe" at one
time. Would that cause this problem?
The proceedure I used to setup (as far as I can remember):
Put a W98 Startup Disk in floppy. Turn machine on. Typed
fdisk at A:\ prompt. Deleted primary DOS partition.
Created new primary partition. I restarted machine.
Typed format c:/s at A:\. It transfered files. Reboot.
A:\ setup. Then the whole slow process began. As I
type this, it's still setting up hardware and finalizing
settings (been almost an hour). I also noticed that the
mouse won't work, either. What do you think?

..........OK, about 16 hours of time went by since I
started the installation, and it finally finished.
Geeeeeeeeez, what a task that was. Everything seems to be
alright. It's still as slow as it always was with WIN95
on it. I just can't figure why it took so long to
install. Anyone have any ideas? Oh, well. It's working
now. I guess that's all that matters now.

Control panel, system, performance tab--is there any mention of MSDOS
compatibility?

--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"DRIFT-O-MATIC" wrote in message
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.........OK, about 16 hours of time went by since I
started the installation, and it finally finished.
Geeeeeeeeez, what a task that was. Everything seems to be
alright. It's still as slow as it always was with WIN95
on it. I just can't figure why it took so long to
install. Anyone have any ideas? Oh, well. It's working
now. I guess that's all that matters now.