My old laptop TECO 130 MHz 1gig 24 mg RAm has no cd rom and I need to install OS Win98 on it. I managed to load its HD with installation cabs from CD. I also installed DOS 6.21 and it's GOING well. I don't know how to go about DOS commands to install Windows98.
Please help
Regards
MarigoldHi Marigold.

That's a fun TASK I've never thought of trying.

The Win Setup.exe is a self extracting prog which contains all the necessary instructions to install the OS but from a cdrom, lots of instructions would have to be amended to access the .cab files on the hdd instead of cdrom.

I'll try to expand Setup.exe and get back to you in a couple of days to report progress but the task might not be possible.

Have you partitioned your hdd?

Meantime I'd appreciate anyone with experience of this kind of thing posting some info.

All of the files from the win98 directory on the CD should be copied to a directory on the HD. Then from the DOS prompt cd\ to the directory and type setup. Win98 will install itself from the HD. You still need to have the product key.Sorry been so long getting back to you...

2K has the answer - if you had a cdrom which you said you don't.

All of the files on the 98 cd will have to be copied & this is a mammoth task using a 1.44 floppy. The transfer involves over 663mb of data (98SE) which means using around 460 floppies or ONE floppy 460 times altho' some of the files will not fit on one floppy even if ultra-compressed.

Is there the remotest possibility of you slaving your hdd in another pc using FAT 32 and with a cdrom? That way all the files could be transferred in a short time. Another tack is to link your pc to another using Interlink which I think comes with Dos 6.2x.

BTW I have not yet found a way of UNPACKING Setup.exe but still trying just for the heck of it.

Good luck