Windows 98 on disk 1

[JayE]

Hi,

Is it possible to obtain floppy disks for Windows 98 ?

Regards,
Jay

 

[CSCWheels]

If you are refering to aquiring 98 on floppies, forget it. 98 is about 100 megs+ in size and a real bear on floppies.

But if you are referring to just a bootable floppy, that can be generated using the 98 setup on a 98 machine. No problemo......

 

[mot98]

Hi JayE,

You can create win98 install floppy's from the win98 CD.

First step is to make the floppy disks.

You will need 29 floppy disks

Download Maxi Disk from the following

http://www.herne.com/

Then format all the disks to 1.7mb using Maxi Disk.

Now copy (not extract) to floppy CAB’s win_9X 03 to win_9X 28 (26 cab’s to 26 floppies).

Then copy (not extract) to one floppy file’s, precopy1 and precopy2.

Now send the rest of the files over two floppies (29 floppies in all)

Okay now you have your install disks.

Next to install you have to do the following,

Boot using a win98 boot disk to a command prompt. Then (assuming your HD is formatted) make a dir called "win98"

Then cd to that directory, and start copying all the files from the floppy disks into that directory.

Once this is done, run "setup.exe" from that directory.

This should work.


mot98

"I'd rather be dead and cool..then alive and uncool."
---Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man

 

[TonyBose]

Now start the entire tedious process over again, because while you were copying the files to disk 29, disks 4,7, and 13 went bad from just sitting there (as floppies do).

...Mac

Humpty Dumpty was pushed!!

 

[diogenes10]

I've been looking at a win95 setup issue this week and I discarded the idea of creating diskettes like you're considering for your win98 project, and went with a laplink transfer of the cabinet files. I think that went much more quickly and smoothly than the process of creating a bunch of diskettes and then feeding them into another machine would have. (I did already have a laplink parallel cable.)

 

[edfair]

And if it is SE, you're talking 74 disks of .cab files.

Ed Fair
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[rockerfellerz]

And who said that the floppy was dead!? (though it might die from this proceedure ;-))

If you're going through Hell...keep going... (Winston Churchill)
RocKeRFelLerZ

 

[diogenes10]

mot98

Have you actually done this?
I ask for two reasons
1> This week i've been attempting to do win95 transfers to a laptop. I've never done it before, but I've hopped in in some of the prior threads saying you can do this and that.
I've discovered that doing can sometimes be a little more troublesome than saying and I've had to liberally apply rockerfellerz tag line this week. (Tonight I have to catch up on sleep.)

2> edfair anticipated my other reason. The right number of disks for win98?? I believe robert bales' webpage which gets referred to here from time to time talks about either 23 or 29 disks for win95. I've seen those steps listed before for win98, but I've always wondered if win98 is supposed to be bigger and better, how it can fit on the same number of disks as win95?
I just did a check - windows explorer shows 57 files, 79mb for a win95 directory on a win95 cd and 775 files, 172 mb for win98 dir on a win98se update cd.

 

[edfair]

Actually I cheated and just took a count of the .cabs.
95 original probably had the 29 disks, although the floppy install set had 27 if I remember correctly.
95B added some more stuff and was up to 110mb on the cab directory and 95c was to 130mb.
98FE both the 5/11 and 11/24 versions had 69 cabs marked at 1.7mb each and the SE has 74 marked at 1.8 so the formatting would need to be changed in all likelyhood.


Ed Fair
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[diogenes10]

hi ed:
I should know better by now than to try to get ahead of you on old software parameters!

 

[edfair]

I just consider it a test. Of my memory of some details. And of my ability to find the stuff I have hidden in my playpen.
Practicing NIH's "use it or lose it" approach.

Ed Fair
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[mot98]

I have successfully used this twice before for the win95 setup disks, but must confess I have not done it with win98, although I assume that the procedure would be the same and you would just need more disks for the cab files.



mot98

"I'd rather be dead and cool..then alive and uncool."
---Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man