 "This program cannot run in DOS mode" Win 98 Install, HELP |
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 Aug 5 2009, 05:49 PM
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Aug 5 2009, 08:25 PM
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What program would that be?
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Aug 5 2009, 10:00 PM
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On Win98 CD you have to change to the folder "win98" by doing cd win98 before you can type setup to run the setup.
On Win98 CD there is a file setup.exe in the root folder. This is supposed to be run from within Windows only. The real Win98 setup.exe and all the other setup files are inside a sub-folder win98. If we assume that your CD drive letter is E:, then I guess you were trying to run E:\setup.exe instead of E:\win98\setup.exe. What I personally used to do when installing Win98 was : 1. boot into DOS mode using a floppy with CD drivers. 2. Copied folder win98 from CD to hard disk, so that I had C:\win98 3. Then run setup from c:\win98\setup.exe This way setup was faster and later whenever Win98 needed Win98 CD for updating some component, it just copied files from c:\win98 -------------------- |
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