How do I reinstall Windows 98 from .cab files?

[hsmith4234]

Or is it better to do it from the CD?

 

[gargouille]

The newer installs do that...copy the cab files to the hd.

Quoted from elsewhere:

<<Kelly (theriots@cajun.net)
Subject: Re: Win98 Se did not install cab files
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.setup

To install the cab files to your system:

Create a folder, on any partition, and call it (ex.Win98CabFiles). Then
copy the files from your CD, to that folder: To do so, place your Win98 CD
in, go to the win98 folder, edit, select all, edit, copy. Send it to the
folder you made previously.

Then alter the source path: Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

In the right pane, double click SourcePath and type in exactly, the path to where the cab files can be found. (The folder to where the cab files have been copied to). Registry, exit.>>

 

[hsmith4234]

I already have the .cab files on my machine. How do I use them to reinstall the os?

 

[crisc]

You need to run the setup.exe that was in the same folder the cabs were in on the install CD. If you copied the whole folder, not just the cab files, then the install.exe should be in that folder.