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[danzigrules]

Little off topic but need help so I can crunch again.

I am trying to install win98 and when I do e:\setup all the cd reads is the addon file, even if i try e:\win98\setup I get the same thing 🙁

PF told me to try xcopy like this:

right from the start like this
path=a
c:
md 98disk
e:
xcopy *.* c:\windows /e
that look right?

but set up like that all it does is copy autorun.inf over and over.

Let it run for 2 hours and it was still on autorun.inf

Any ideas?


Thx

 

[JWMiddleton]

danzigrules, try this assuming you have booted from a floopy, or have formated c: with /s option and have xcopy available in your path.

e:
cd \win98
xcopy *.* c:\98disk /s/e/v


That will get all the files and subdirectories and verify what has been copied.

Then do:

c:
cd \98disk
setup


You will cooking!

Good luck!

 

[danzigrules]

ok with that all it was copying was one set of cab files

the cd has this on it

file = add ons

file = cdsample

file = drivers

file = tools

file = win98

autorun.inf

readme

then the setup icon

don't i just need to copy the setup file?

 

[JWMiddleton]

Sounds like you didn't cd to Win98 directory. You were at the root of e: And, Yes, you would be copying a bunch of .cab files (dozens) and a few files. One of which is setup.exe. You actually copied every thing on the disk.

 

[danzigrules]

its just running base4.cab over and over

does 4 then reads source file


errr 5

 

[JWMiddleton]

There is something wrong as you may have figured. I do that all the time and it works fine. Can you get your hands on another CD of Win9x? Is the system OC'd?

 

[danzigrules]

just gonna do the main part of the install on this pc then before hardware detects gonna fwap in back in the other pc
thx for the help

 

[danzigrules]

that wont work either 🙁



grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Dazmite]

I have had similar problems, turned out to be a bad CD Drive, I guess it would slow down just enough at times to stop the copying process.
Not sure if this helps.


Daz

 

[networkman]

I've seen a similar problem, but in my case it was a funky CD drive that would only work properly with an Oak IDE CDrom driver. :Q Try another drive, or try changing the driver; IDE drivers really shouldn't matter that much.. the operate word being shouldn't. 😕

 

[danzigrules]

Well thx for all the help that you all gave to me, but *sigh* none of them worked.

Was on Irc and Cirrus told me to try bootdisk.com and the bootdisk there worked 🙂

Now don't think I am stupid, I did try boot disks from 2 different pc's 2 different cdroms, and none worked.

But I shall be crunching OGR again in a few minutes. 🙂


Thx again