PhilsComputerLab wrote:
I used to install my unattended Windows 98 installation from a Boot CD, but now I'm partitioning and formatting the drive on my main desktop (Paragon free partitioning and imaging software), then copy a set of folder with Windows 98 setup files, drivers, tools, patches across. Then I just boot from a Floppy drive and run the Windows 98 setup from the drive 😀
Sounds a bit like the same Win98 install process, that I have used since 1995 (started using this with Win95)
Partitioning and formatting, using a Win98 boot disk. Then I am copying everything from a special made backup
cd of Win98. (Don't want to scratch the original cd) Copying win98 to a folder called "win98se" doing this:
- c: (enter)
- cd\ (enter, and just in case I am in some folder)
- mkdir install (enter)
- cd install (enter)
- mkdir win98se (enter)
- d: (enter)
- copy *.* c: (enter)
- c: (enter)
- install (enter)
This way is a bit faster than reading from cd every time, and Win98 remember the install path, so I avoid
using the cd every single time it asks for the install media. When I install some new software.
The only thing that are not really standard, is that I had to copy stuff like "fdisk.exe" and "format.exe" to
the boot floppy from a Win98 install, in order to fill out the missing stuff for partitioning and formatting.
As far as I remember, a standard boot floppy, only has the basic stuff like cdrom drivers.
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