Okay here it is... My fiance and i got here old comp back from her MOTHERS place and it was bogged down. It to like 5 mins to OPEN my comp. I spent day making it run faster. I got about a 50%increase of speed. But other problems came up so we decieded to wipe everything and start over.
So i fdisked and formated my 2 drives to look like this



1) C: Pri Dos | 4918 MB | Fat32 | 100%
 
2) D: Pri Dos | 4863 MB | Fat32 | 50%
   E: Ext Dos | 4897 MB | Fat32 | 50%

Did i do this right, i want windows to be on C: .
So then im in dos with cdrom support and i get into F:\ drive.(Cdrom) Then as follows
F:\>setup   ---i hit enter---
---Blank line left--- Hangs for a second
F:\>   ---then returns me here again.

I am stumped with this way.
So another rout i took was entering 1 on the Start up menu(used boot disk) "Start windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM"
It then loads all of the drivers. Then i get the message:
"The Windows 98 Setup files were not found"

This is a brand new cd. and when i plug it into my XP comp, i can see the setup files; whats going on? Is there anotherway around thes problems?
Thanks for reading and helping me.
Mat

One more problem, when i boot my comp up, my memory test keeps on looping how do i fix this.

Specs. its all old but good stuff at one point!!
ASUS P2L97 mother board
ASUS AGP-V3000 video
768 MB of SDRAM
Fujitsu and Caviar35100 harddrives
BIOS 1.51
If any other info is need just ask.Can anyone help out here??? It's been awhile since I setup a Win 98 system, but if it's having trouble finding the files on the cd try running setup from the f:\win98 instead of from the root directory.

Good Luck, keep us posted
i tried that already as well i just forgot to post it in the original message. but thanks for trying to help. if anyone else knows, plzzzzzzzz let me know.It's been a long time, but Win98 as I remember has to be installed on the first partition of the first drive. (your C: drive in this case). Has the partition been marked as active and why do you have two primary partitions? Unless your're PLANNING on a dual boot system, I would suggest you allocate the second drive as extended and then build logical partiitions.

Good luck.  It appears your computer can see your CD drive as F: but your CD doesn't appear to be reading CD's

Try typing F:\ Dir

This will list the directory of files on the CD if it is reading properly - if not it will return with a cannot read directory message

first the second was to be used to install win xp, then i did some research on it and it won't be compatable. Like you said about the partitions, i did exactly that last night. Thanks for the ADVICE anyway.

When i type F:>dir i get to see all files and i can open some of them like normal. yet whe i typ setup, nothing.... but thank you for trying, any other idea I WILL try. any thing.Hi try to use another CD ROM or CD Driveproblem solved... i got another cd drive from a friend for dirt cheap and all is fine now, i guess my old one was sH.. thank you all for your help. oh ya i also contacted microsoft about this issue, and they also recomended to replace my cd drive... for others information. once again thank you all for trying to help me.