Installing 98 FE

I have an older PC i would like to install 98 FE on. Unfortuantly My floppy drive has died long ago (I have a snowballs chance in h3ll of finding a new one). What i also don't have DOS on a cd or with CD support. What i was thinking was to use a bootable floppy set of files and burn it to a CD along with the 98 Files. This did not work however. So I was hoping i could find a CD image of Dos that is small enough to also fit on the 98 FE install files on one CD. I tried Ultamit boot CD v3.4 and used FreeDos to try to install it, but after running setup.exe, it runs setup but stops to tell me that 98 needs at least 16 mb of memory to install, this leads me to believe it is trying to install on a CD or in the Virtual Ram drive FreeDos creates. anyone know how to help.

 

Other people have had similar problems, I would suggest looking for a cheap Win98SE CD. If you need a bootable floppy they are small enough to fit in an email as a zip file, the bootable floppy will wake up the CD, and the rest is easy. You'll probably get the floppy as part of the CD. Note, I am talking about a legit copy here.

eBay is a good source, I am sure there are others. The CD is MUCH easier than going the floppy route.

16MB is the minimum standard for Win98, either edition. I like the SE edition because it is much more stable and bug free.

 

Well, there is a reason i'm installing 98 FE instead of buying like say, 2K. I can't afford a new disk. Like i said, i no longer have a floppy drive. I'm also wondering if the switch /T:C:/*tmp* (changing the location of temp install files) could work. Since i think 98 is attempting to put these files in a place it shouldn't i was thinking i could correct this in this switch.

 

You can get a floppy drive here $6.50 US plus shipping

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=FD-235HF-BLK-R&cpc=SCH

If you need a boot disk get that here

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Cheers :cool

 

sadly i have tried Bootdisk.com. thank's for the link to buy the floppy drive. Buying something for a 10 year old computer is the last thing i want to do though. I really would like to get this working without having to fool with it hardware wise. Being an HP it is kind of touchy about such things. I've had many hardware related problems with it before.

 

Just occured to me, you will need a floppy reguardless for 98 of any stripe. They don't vary much, local prices are $7 new, $4 used. The Win98CD is not live, and without a DOS installed (that in turn installs the CD drivers) it will be very hard. I can help you the boot floppy, but the CD (FE or SE) is almost a must.

My personel preference is to transfer the CAB files from the CD into a directory on the HD called C:\WIN98 and involk the "setup.exe" in that directory after it is transfered over.