newbie how to question

[Easy]

When doing a clean install of windows 98 how do I make it so that I do not have to put the WIn98 cd in the computer afterwords whenever I make any changes or add hardware to my pc. The reason being I have a computer at home and at the cottage and the Win98cd can only be at one place at a time. Therefore I figure if I can do this I won't have to lug the cd around. Thanks

 

[xtreme2k]

copy your whole win98 cd into a directory in your hard disk

if it ask u for the cd
just browse it to that directory

it works
i am doing it myself

 

[Easy]

Being that I am an idiot how do I go about doing that...thanks. Is it just a right click and copy. I apologize for my ignorance in advance

 

[Zeeliv]

I highlight everything in the Win98 directory on the disk and copy it, then right click somewhere in your hard drive (I believe the default location it looks before the actual disk is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\PRECOPY normally) and paste it there.

 

[mrbios]

Yes, just copy and paste to your hard drive. If you don't want a prompt anymore, you'll have to hack your registry to point it towards that spot on your hard drive.

Russell "Mr.Bios" Sampson

 

[Wolfie]

Easy.... You want to copy the win98 dir into a file somewhere on your hd.... That way when you need anything... All you have to do it point it to that dir on your hd. You don't need the WHOLE cd on your hd. That would just take up too much space. Everything you need for drivers or anything of that sort are in the win98 dir on the win98 cd. Copy and paste would work just fine.

Wolf

 

[Easy]

You guys are the best. Man I love this board. I only wish I could contribute more or at all for that matter...thanks. So if I understand correctly I right click on the win98cd choose "explore" and then copy the WIN98 folder to my hd.

 

[Wolfie]

Yep, That would work just fine.

Wolf

 

[|TOAST|]

I find that if you're doing a clean install it is best (and a faster install) to make a directory of your chioce in DOS and to copy the WIN98 folder to that directory. Then run SETUP.EXE from that directory on your hard drive.

Command for making a directory in DOS when on the specified drive/partition: md <insert directory name here>

Command for copying files in DOS: copy <insert CDROM drive letter here>:\win98\*.* <insert destination drive letter here>:\<insert directory you just created here>\*.*

That's it! It's pretty simple and faster to just install off your hard drive.

EDIT
Just wanted to bold the commands to make it less confusing.

 

[Shalmanese]

Copy D:/win98 to either c:/win98 or C:/windows/options/cabs(OEM preinstall loacation) then when you install new hardware, it will prompt you for the location, then just type in where you moved it and you will be fine.

BTW DONT copy the entire CD or you get bout 400 MB of useless crap on your HD
just D:/win98 which is bout 120MB