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Can't Run Setup From Win98SE CD... Waaaaahhh!

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Pikachu

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Sorry to be a pest, but this 30 minute task has turned into a weekend project and I've got a billion other things to do, besides setting up this little budget box.

Just threw an CUSL2/C600 into a case with non-FDISKed Maxtor 40GB drive, floppy and 24X Panasonic CD-ROM. It's connected to a 14" Seiko 1440 via the onboard video. Monitor and CD-ROM are used, but function fine in another old box. The balance of parts are new.

With an older Creative Labs 18X CD-ROM, it couldn't even start to boot from CD. Just said to put a bootable disk in. Funny, cause that same drive installed Win98SE from CD on the other old box I mentioned. I replaced it with the 24X Panasonic, it starts to run setup, but comes up with errors about files missing or corrupted that are being accessed from it's config.sys, lines 11-20...

CD-ROM drive is master on secondary controller and I've tried two different copies of the Win98SE disk.

I swapped out the new 128MB SDRAM with an old 32MB stick and that didn't help. Set the memory timings to as conservative as possible, still no go. CPU is at default FSB and voltage. Uh, thoughts? 🙁
 
Have you tried the old fashioned way?

[*]Win98 SE bootdisk (floppy)
[*]run setup from the a:/>
 
Thanks John, but no. I suspect something is wrong with this configuration. I didn't really want to "work around" the problem without first finding out what's wrong with it. Uh, there IS something wrong here, no?
 
I didn't know my method of installing Win 98SE was a "work around". I have yet to do it any other way.
 
I boot from a Win98 disk, create a Win98 directory and copy the files from the CD to the HD and install off the HD.
 
Well, I'll do it, but it doesn't seem right. The last PC I setup booted from the CD, FDISKed and formatted the drive, rebooted and installed Win98. And the last time I had trouble with "corrupted" files during setup the memory turned out to be at fault.

Guess I'll try it from floppy, but I anticipate trouble down the road based on this shaky start...
 


<< errors about files missing or corrupted that are being accessed from it's config.sys, lines 11-20... >>



So what's on these lines?
 
It's in the process of formatting the drive now, so I can't get the exact file names. The lines contained references to system files needed to run setup. Those files are expanded during setup. Not sure if they're expanded into RAM or the HDD though.

I found when I went to FDISK the drive that an 8MB DOS partition had been created already. I didn't do it myself, so one of those failed setups must have.

Edit: My FDISKing and formatting came to naught. It wouldn't boot to C: drive even though I'd transferred the system files to it during formatting and a second time afterward.

Broke out Maxtor's MaxBlast and let it do the FDISKing and formatting. It accomplished this without using an overlay. It transferred the system files from the same startup disk I'd used before. Machine rebooted fine to the C: drive and is running setup from the CD-ROM drive right now. WTF was the problem? I don't know, but it had something to do with the new Maxtor. All is well at the moment, but I'd be hard pressed to interpret the flaw.

BTW, it still wouldn't boot to the CD-ROM and run setup from there. Had to install drivers for the CD-ROM on C: and do it that way.
 
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