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Setup won't let me choose typical setup and stops after file copying?
Hi, I almost made it through a Win98SE setup after 3 days of fighting
with it. I downloaded the floppy files from bootdisk.com and put them before the Win98SE files and burned a CD from Nero 6. This time all proceeded fairly well, but when it got to the screen where you could pick the type of install, it flew right through there and I couldn't pick the one I wanted but chose Custom. However, it still kept chugging away and copied most of the files, I believe, but then went right back to an E: prompt. So, why did this happen? Now, I rebooted and it sort of skipped that part in the Safe Recovery mode but then it said it couldn't continue because of no comcat32.dll file. So, what can I do to get this Win98SE up and running. Please help me with this as this setting up is beginning to be really a pain in the you-know-where. Something is really wrong and if you could help me, much appreciated, DD |
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Setup won't let me choose typical setup and stops after file copying?
"psongman" wrote in message
oups.com... Hi, I almost made it through a Win98SE setup after 3 days of fighting with it. I downloaded the floppy files from bootdisk.com and put them before the Win98SE files and burned a CD from Nero 6. This time all proceeded fairly well, but when it got to the screen where you could pick the type of install, it flew right through there and I couldn't pick the one I wanted but chose Custom. However, it still kept chugging away and copied most of the files, I believe, but then went right back to an E: prompt. So, why did this happen? Now, I rebooted and it sort of skipped that part in the Safe Recovery mode but then it said it couldn't continue because of no comcat32.dll file. So, what can I do to get this Win98SE up and running. Please help me with this as this setting up is beginning to be really a pain in the you-know-where. Something is really wrong and if you could help me, much appreciated, DD Omit the bootable CD i.e. reinstal from the (correct) floppy and the instal CD. When you copied the install CD onto a bootable CD, with floppy contents besides, you may have thus altered the subdirectory structure so the instal routine gets lost. (Being designed to run only from a Microsoft CD SETUP.EXE lacks routines to let you Browse to locate essential files. It is designed to run automatically without such aids, thus lacks them. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Setup won't let me choose typical setup and stops after file copying?
Hi, Don, I used to live in Ottawa awhile ago. Well, I don't have an
instal Cd, just a recovery CD with Win98SE on it....that is why I tried to make a bootable one. I thought that would have been figured out by my post. So, the files get messed up in the subdirectory changeover, makes sense, that is probably why I had so much trouble trying to accomplish this reinstall. Microsoft makes all these routines so complicated by some of their safety procedures, esp. when you have paid for your copy of an OS. Well, it didn't setup properly, if you have any ideas, feel free to send them my way. I have a restore CD with Win 98Se on it, inside its own folder. Thanks for some insight, DD |
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