Anyone have a windows 98 autoinstall disk?

djheater

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Yes... what exactly do you mean?

Interestingly last night at 2am I was trying to install 98 for a machine I'm building for my daughter and the real original I had was to scratched to work :( I ended up using a copy off Kazaa.... is that wrong? I don't know... it was late.. i had stopped caring at that point. Anyway... what I downloaded was not bootable when burned but that's not a big deal... Just stick a bootable floppy in and run Setup.exe from a DOS prompt...

I know making bootable CD's isn't hard but I was to tired at that point to mess with it....
 

chiwawa626

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talk bout n00bs...Anyways, MS has an autoinstall script for a lot of their OSes and basicly in that script u setup how u want it to setup windows and what key to use and all that. Theres some disks u can download online that basicly u put it in and boot up, it will format and install windows for you without having to press anything except OK once. A lot of OEM system builders usedto give these out for emergency disks....i think ABS COMPUTERS was one that i had a disk from...its a great tool if u want to setup windows so u just pop it in press ok, and come back in 30 min all done :).
 

vi edit

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If you had mentioned unattended install in the first place, that would have helped. n00b ;)
 

hoihtah

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Originally posted by: vi_edit
If you had mentioned unattended install in the first place, that would have helped. n00b ;)

haha... that was awesome vi.
 

spanky

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all u need to do is add a modified "msbatch.inf" file into the cab file folder. i found it on google.