Win98 Setup Iso' title='Win98 Setup Iso' />Win98 Setup IsoInstall WXP from HDDQuick Start Copy the i. Win. XP. installation CD to a FAT3. MB in size for Win. XP. Then run winnt. Hard Drive from. boot floppy diskette. Notes 1. The same process can be used for Windows 2. For Windows 9. 8 and ME see Appendix 1 at the bottom of this page. If you want to be able to run DOS from a self made CD then see Appendix 2. For general help with DOS commands see Appendix 3. For what to do if you have neither a floppy nor a cdrom drive see Appendix 4. Why install from the Hard Drive. Sometimes it just seems to be impossible to even boot to the. CD in order to run the Win. XP setup. Such problems are. Win98 Setup Iso' title='Win98 Setup Iso' />Booting Bootable. CDs page. At other times one can start setup from the CD but the. It can be that there are corrupt files on the CD or that it is. To some extent, largely dependent on the hardware, it may just be. CD and so an install from. Hard Drive can proceed much more rapidly. Ways of initiating an installation. The most common method is to run setup from the installation CD. This is generally the preferred method and can be done from within. CD which usually autoruns or by booting to. CD. Another method is to boot to six specially prepared floppy. Seemingly much less well know is that winnt. DOS or winnt. 32. Windows can also kick off an. CD, on a Hard Drive or on a Network. Wanting to virtualize a very old legacy system Desktops and Server I figure if I create a VLAN on my current network I can run the whole thing on the. You can download the Cygwin tools freely from the Cygwin Web site. Click on the Install Cygwin Now icon, and save the setup. Folder2Iso can create an ISO image from any kind of folder with the subfolders. Windows 95 iso579Mwin95 8. M. Software remastering is software development that recreates system software and applications while incorporating customizations, with the intent that it is copied and. Back to Sams Classified Page Table of Contents. Terms and Conditions. Minimum order is 25 not including shipping except for homeless HeNe laser specials though I. Share. DOS can be running from any bootable media but often the most. DOS on a floppy diskette. Preparing the Hard Drive for the installation files. The Win. XP installation files are contained in the CDs i. An appropriate place means a FAT3. DOS. If you have a. OS you could copy these files in advance directly from within. Operating System. Apart from anything else, copying the files from the CD to the HD. CD itself. If they. OK then they are probably not corrupt copies. We suggest, say a 1. GB, FAT3. 2 partition at the start of the Hard. Drive. Such a partition could be created using Boot. It NG or any other partitioning tools of your. DOS boot floppy. However. DOS will do. Copying the Files using a DOS Boot Floppy. You will need a boot floppy diskette that has CDROM support and. Smart Drive. smartdrv. The Win. 98. SE link under Non Windows Based Image Files. WImage. App and which contains a a win. Many other files from the same bootdisk. Boot to your boot floppy and then navigate to the first FAT. C at its command prompt. A C Make a directory on the C partition we suggest i. C md i. 38. As long as your boot floppy has smartdrv. C A smartdrv. Assuming R is the CDROMs drive letter but edit the line. CDROMs drive letter you would next. CDs i. 38. 6 folder to the hard drive. C copy R i. C i. 38. NOTE It has been pointed out to us that using copy and the. Ultimate Knight Windom English Patch. We ourselves have never needed these sub folders for the installation to succeed but others have needed, for example, the contents of the ASMS subfolder. In order to copy all files and sub folders of the i. R i. 38. 6 C i. The s and e switches at the end of the command line enable this. If the command prompt is showing C return to the A prompt by entering A To see all options for xcopy. DOS programs use the Thus xcopy should show you all its options. C A A xcopy R i. C i. Initiating the Installation. Enter the winnt command to initiate a DOS install or double click winnt. Windows. C cd i. C i. C i. The s C i. 38. In such a case you would then. C i. 38. 6 in the box that is displayed to you. Thereafter just follow the installation prompts. Appendix 1. Installing Windows 9. Millenium which are both DOS based from the hard drive. The process if very similar to above and somewhat simpler. The folder to copy from the installation CD. Win. 98 folder for Windows 9. Win. 9x folder for Windows Millenium. Its up to you if you rename. Many OEMs store these files on the hard drive. C WindowsOptionsCabs. One advantage of this is that if installation files are needed. CD is not prompted for because the installation files always exist on the hard drive and. Instead of winnt as in the above example, one just navigates into the Win. DOS command prompt. Double check, before running setup, that the partition is big enough for your purposes, that it is a. You can do this with a number of partition. Boot. It NG or FDisk from a DOS boot floppy. Appendix 2. Running DOS from a CDMore and more systems nowadays ship without a floppy drive. There are however still times when. DOS and its utilities, such as FDisk, are needed. To that end we have compiled a. Win. 98se based Start up Floppy Diskette as a bootable. ISO which you are welcome to download and use to create. CD. A CD which emulates the floppy template used in its making. It should function just fine as long. A drive which actually, being part of a CD disk, is read only. CDR or CDRW format. We also have provided a utility called zmakeiso which can be used to. MB bootable floppy image into a bootable CD. Appendix 3. Help with DOS Commands. There are overviews and examples of the DOS commands at THIS SITE and its mirrors. Appendix 4. PC with no Floppy nor CDROM Drive. Many modern systems do support booting from a USB floppy or CD drive so obtaining one could solve the. PC with no fixed floppy or CD drive. When the only available drive is a hard drive then, unless it. PC. preferably one with a floppy or CD drive. The first thing to do while installed in the other PC is to create a. DOS partition on it. A 1. GB FAT3. 2 partition should be more than sufficient. It is best if this is all on its own at the start of the hard drive. As long as the created partition has. PC. First check that you can boot. Ensure you have. added the smartdrv file to it and any other DOS utilities, such as format and fdisk, that you might. Then return the hard drive to your PC. Unless there is some. BIOS dealing with the drive it should now boot to a C prompt from which you can. DOS programs eg winnt. If the PC is a laptop then its hard drive can either be prepared temporarily swapped into another laptop. IDE adapter. An alternative, less testable way. USB converter or enclosure less testable because you wont. PC. Web design by paulski. February 2. 01. 0. Pages best viewed using a CSS2 compliant browser such as Firefox or Opera.