Install OEM 98se on new comp question

[4Ryan6]

A new hardrive needs to be partitioned and the partition set active to be able to write to it, sometimes pretested hardrives are already partitioned, so you can go ahead and format one thats already prepartitioned in FAT32, but usually new drives are blank and FDISK has to be run to partition the drive, most common partitioning is to set the entire drive as the Primary DOS partition, that way the entire drive is available for the Operating system to use.

 

[4Ryan6]

What size hardrive are you getting in Gigabytes?

 

[arthurh]

crashman, Why is a hdd partitioned, and why would you want more than 2GB? Or will this become obvious once I understand partitioning?

Thanks

 

[arthurh]

40Gb is all he wants for now. He thinks he may want to copy DVD in the future, but still believes 40GB will do. I have tried to explain how easy it would be to fill up a 40GB hdd now adays concedering how much room you need for the newer games. But his budget(and mine for now)can't allow him anything larger. I suspect that once he starts using this comp he'll become a believer.

 

[Crashman]

When you buy a new drive, it's completely blank. Partitioning it adds a file system. The size of the partition will be the amount of usable space for that drive letter.

So you creat a partition, then you format it.

If your drive was already being used, it would have a partition already, you could format it to erase it.

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[arthurh]

Once again I thank you. I believe I'm understanding this much better now. My brain does seem to get stuck evry now and then.lol I also feel that I will be able to follow these instructions I've recieved correctly as well. I intend on posting my specs for this build in the CPU section before ordering just to make sure I've not over looked something.

 

[Crashman]

OK. Quick rehash (specific commands to type are listed in previous post).
1.) Set BIOS to boot off CD
2.) boot off 98 CD to DOS mode with CD support
3.) Change the A: prompt to the drive letter of the CD
4.) Change directory to Win98
5.) Type Fdisk and follow prompts
6.) Reboot when prompted and follow steps 1-3 again.
7.) typs Format C: and follow prompts
8.) make a Win98 directory on C:
9.) copy the Win98 directory from the CD to the Win98 directory on C:
10.) Change to c:\win98
11.) run setup.

It's usually done from the CD, but by copying the directory to C: and running settup from there, you'll no longer need access to the CD.

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[arthurh]

Very good summary. I've made my print outs of all this info for future ref.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear. My instructions are only for if you can't install from the cd. I don't know about gateway, but with a HP or compaq cd (along with some others) you would have to get the files that you need from a working installation of the O/S. The best way that I can tell you to check it out, is to put the cd in a non gateway computer, and try to boot from it. If it works, great. Because that is the easiest way to do it. If it doesn't work however, and you get a message saying something like "This is not a Gateway computer", you'll have to copy the files I posted to a cd and access the cd via floppy.

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[Crashman]

He said he has 2 disk, a Restore disk and a Windows98 CD. A lot of OEM sytems came with a standard Windows 98 OEM CD wrapped up in the MS shrinkwrap with the Win98 book and licence.

The Windows98 OEM CD is bootable and not tied to any specific manufacturer's configuration.

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