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http://www.litepc.com/support/kb.cgi?view=51 Tips on DirectX9 Installation under 98lite ... ** UPDATED FOR DirectX 9.0c ** DirectX9 can be installed using the small "web update" package from Microsoft providing that IE is installed (Win98, 98SE) or both IE and the "Microsoft PC Help Center" (Windows Me)(requires 98lite v4.7) To avoid the web based install which downloads the DirectX files every time you install it, and to avoid installing IE just to install DirectX you can download the full DirectX 9.0c Redist package and use that to install DirectX. 98lite - MICRO -------------- 98lite MICRO installations may be missing the cryptography components needed for checking the digital signatures of the DirectX download. If so you will see the error message: "A cabinet file necessary for installation can not be trusted" You can install the 98lite "MS Cryptography Providors" in the Internet Tools section of the control panel add\remove software applet. This option is added to the control panel by 98lite. The lean alternative is to use the INF package below to just install the initpki.dll and rsabase.dll files that are required by the DirectX installer. See Below. 98lite - Me ----------- Under Windows Millennium the "Microsoft PC Help Center" may also be required to get past the file check and complete the install (requires 98lite v4.7 and you can uninstall the PC Health option afterwards if you want without influencing your DirectX. You may see the error message " DirectX did not copy a required file" if you are missing the Health Centre files. If however you really dont want to install the PC Health option - all you need is the following system files to be present in the system folder so that the DirectX installer can verify the install file certificates: SFC.DLL, SFPDLL.DLL, SMGR.DLL, ATRACE.DLL We have a small INF installer that will extract these files from your CDROM/setup files and copy them to your system folder - see below. Windows 98(original): 98preDX9.inf INF installer (installs the cryptography files) Windows 98 Second Edition: 98SEpreDX9.inf INF installer (installs the cryptography files) Windows Me: MEpreDX9.inf INF installer (installs the cryptography and Win Me Health Center files) Save the INF file to your desktop, right click on it and select "install" from the context menu. After the INF has copied the needed files to your system you should then be able to install the full DirectX 9.0c Redist package. The DirectX uninstall routine was upgraded in 98lite v4.7 to fully remove all DirectX 9.0c files and registry baggage should an uninstall be required.

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Would it be perfect? You may run into troubles with hw detection. Is there an installed version of W98 which fits to every hw configuration?

Download 98lite. Create two partitions on your hard disk. 120-150 Mb approx. for 98lite and W98SE install files. Use option *clean install* without IE. Create INF files in 98lite setup folder [Version] Signature="$CHICAGO$" and name them mstask.inf mdacinst.inf wbem.inf ... to get rid of files (and features) installed by them. Delete install files from setup partition and use that space for swap-file and/or your files.

I use freeware CabPack to create cabs. When I take care of spanned archives then there is no problen to omit unreferenced files from cabs WIN98_21 .. WIN98_xx. I do get error messages when I modify Precopy files, however. To create unreferenced files simply extract INFs from Precopy2.cab and edit them. Omit unnecessary files from Copy sections. Setup does not unpack these INFs from archives if found outside. Have got some ideas from 98lite and mindows files.

You can combine 98lite Preview and winimize method. When you copy an almost empty INF file into the setup directory [Version] Signature="$CHICAGO$" and name it MSTASK.INF or MDACINST.INF then Task Scheduler or Data Access (ADO, ActiveX, ...) won't be installed, although those features are in Pro version only.

In almost every CAB there is a fraction of a file and the other part of it is in the previous/next CAB. Use freeware ArcPeek to list files in CABs!

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