Not so.Originally posted by Chewie UK+13 April 2004 - 16:13--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chewie UK @ 13 April 2004 - 16:13)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-delphin460@13 April 2004 - 15:49
This is your problem, until you get this fixed you wont be able to install any operating system mate
Dray: If you haven't got a bootable floppy, head over to Bootdisk.Com and get one - you can use a Win98 one.
Boot from the floppy, enabling CDROM support.
Now use DOS to run the setup... the only DOS commands you'll need to use are CD & DIR.
Once booted you should see A:> on the screen, so you need to find your CDROM drive letter...
- type D: and hit return, the prompt changes to D:>.
- type DIR /P the hit return and you'll get a directory list of the D: drive - if it's the CDROM drive you'll see it spin as it's accessed. The /P switch, incidentally, stops a list scrolling past the screen before you can read it
- if that's not the CDROM drive, type E:, hit return and then DIR /P then return. If that's not it, keep going up the letters until you find it!
Once you're on the CD drive, you'll need to find the i386 directory, which is usually inside another directory often called WINDOWS. The DIR command shows you the directory names so go into each in turn and use DIR until you see the i386 directory...
For the sake of example let's say your CD drive is E: and there are directories on it called WINDOWS, WINXP, PROGRAMS & UPDATES, although obviously your CD could contain anything or even just i386.
- from the E:> prompt, type CD WINDOWS hit return, then DIR /P then return and read the list you get. If you see i386 then you can CD into that, otherwise CD into other directories in your search. When you want to go back up out of a directory, for instance if the WINDOWS directory holds nothing useful, type CD .. and hit return, which will take you back up a level, until you get back to the root directory of the CD.
You can see exactly where you are on a drive from the prompt. Let's say that you CD into WINXP on my imaginary disc and find the i386 directory there, type CD I386, hit return and you'll see the prompt has changed to E:\WINXP\I386>.
- once in the i386 directory you could just type SETUP /? to get the setup to show you it's command line options. I don't know about XP, but all other Windows setups have option switches that control things like whether to perform a scandisk, show billboards, make a boot floppy or other stuff during the install. You use the switches after the filename by typing something like SETUP /I /G /A or whatever you choose from the available switch options.
OK, once the setup is running you're where you'd be if you had a bootable CD.
please note that I am typing this from memory and haven't used this method with WindowsXP myself, so if you find you haven't got a file called SETUP but do have one called INSTALL then usae your initiative. [/b][/quote]
ahh thats the long way lol.
either find out why it aint bootin from the cd (because that is the problem, whether its bios not set properly or the cd is corrupt or not bootable) and do it that way, or:
start with ur bootdisk. at command prompt type E:\i386\ then type winnt and press enter, setup will then start... (if your cd drive isnt E change it to D or F or whatever it is)
but this way is really slow, the faster way is if the cd will boot, so try to find a bootable cd or get ur motherboard setup properly to boot from the cd.
oh and to install windows 98 from dos u have to format the drive to fat32, then to run setup type in E:\setup (or whatever else ur drive letter may be)
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) so its kinda hard to figure out but...heres the simple way to know how to set it up. all well have to worry about are the ide ones:
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