Alanoll Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 does Windows 98 EVER come up at the top of the screen? with theWindows logo to the left of it?Or does it still look like dos.That's what I meant by when does it happen.If it's dos, make sure you have the PATH set correctly to your install filesIf anyone else has any problems speak up, but BE SPECIFIC! I need to know EXACTLY when it happens. daywalker's error can come at ANY point of the install. If i'm even going to attempt to configure a setup to match yours I need to know the specifics. BE DESCRIPTIVE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daywalker03 Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 I was trying to get a screen capture so you could see exactly the error I'm getting. It's still in DOS. I'm using flyakite's 98se disk image, so I think the path is set right. For what it's worth, if I manually partition and format, OEMSetup will start the installation. Figure that out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Alanoll I set the CD rom letters up as you described in other post as below, however during the dos setup it complains the drivers cannot be found on either drive d or e & if i swap to the other DVD drive it complains it can't find the driver on drive e or d. Im a little lost on this one?@ECHO OFFset EXPAND=YESSET DIRCMD=/O:Nset LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 Cclscall setramd.bat %LglDrv%set temp=c:\set tmp=c:\path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NULset comspec=%RAMD%:\command.comcopy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NULcopy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL:ERRORIF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXTecho Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2echo.pauseGOTO ERROR:EXT%RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NULecho The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.echo.LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%IF EXIST D:\Win51 Set CDROM=D:IF EXIST E:\Win51 Set CDROM=E:IF EXIST F:\Win51 Set CDROM=F:IF EXIST G:\Win51 Set CDROM=G:IF EXIST H:\Win51 SET CDROM=H:echo.clsecho Now installing Windows 98 SEecho.echo Loading...path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\SETUP\98SE\WIN98\OEMSETUP.EXEecho.GOTO QUIT:QUITecho To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.echo.rem clean up environment variablesset CDROM=set LglDrv=Have I setup the batch file correctly to call the relevant drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 hmmm, Mav that's a doosy....seems like it should work....have you tried changing the file?In your config.sys are you loading the CDROM drivers to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 I was trying to get a screen capture so you could see exactly the error I'm getting. It's still in DOS. I'm using flyakite's 98se disk image, so I think the path is set right. For what it's worth, if I manually partition and format, OEMSetup will start the installation. Figure that out... what does your Autoexec.bat look like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daywalker03 Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Here it is.@ECHO OFFset EXPAND=YESSET DIRCMD=/O:Nset LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 Cclscall setramd.bat %LglDrv%set temp=c:\set tmp=c:\path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NULset comspec=%RAMD%:\command.comcopy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NULcopy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL:ERRORIF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXTecho Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2echo.pauseGOTO ERROR:EXT%RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NULecho The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.echo.LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%echo.clsecho Now installing Windows 98 SEecho.echo Loading...path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\SETUP\98SE\WIN98\OEMSETUP.EXEecho.GOTO QUIT:QUITecho To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.echo.rem clean up environment variablesset CDROM=set LglDrv= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 you sure mscdex.exe is on the ramdrive? On a normal Startup disk, it's not compressed.i believe you've run in the same problem that a few others have had. Others used Setup.exe though, but it would freeze.See what happens if your change /L:%CDROM% to /L:Dand then change the %CDROM%:\Setup....to D:\Setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daywalker03 Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Yes, the mscdex.exe is on the ramdisk. The ramdisk is D:, so I'd have to set the CDROM as E:. Like I said though, if I exit the setup to the A:\ command prompt, I can fdisk and format the virtual drive, reboot and OEMSetup will start to install Windows 98se. I even tried different virtual drive sizes last night to see if that was the problem, and it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 is this in VMWare or VirtualPC?do go through the prompts in OEMSetup.exe about it askign to format or whatnot?you may wish to add these lines to the autoexec.bat as well. They are in the orignal autoexec.bat from Microsoft.%CDROM%:cd \CDSource\WIN_98SE\WIN98then the next line would be OEMSETUP.EXE /K "/IE /NF" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daywalker03 Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Microsoft Virtual PC. It hangs when trying to format. It does create the partitions, but hangs trying to access the CDROM. Error message is this: "Please insert the following disk in drive D (or your CD-ROM drive): Windows 98 Boot Disk or CD-ROM When you are ready to continue, press ENTER. " Since the disk is an ISO image and it is "in" the virtual cd-rom, I hit enter and the error message repeats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 try mounting the ISO in Alcohol or DaemonTools, and have VirtualPC snag the virtual drive.as for the harddrive, do you have it set to be dynamically increasing or fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 hmmm, Mav that's a doosy....seems like it should work....have you tried changing the file?In your config.sys are you loading the CDROM drivers to begin with.Alanoll, have not modified the config.sys here it is below? Any ideas? files=10buffers=10dos=high,umbstacks=9,256lastdrive=zdevice=himem.sys /testmem:offdevice=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001device=btdosm.sysdevice=flashpt.sysdevice=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001device=aspi2dos.sysdevice=aspi8dos.sysdevice=aspi4dos.sysdevice=aspi8u2.sysdevice=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daywalker03 Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 (edited) try mounting the ISO in Alcohol or DaemonTools, and have VirtualPC snag the virtual drive.as for the harddrive, do you have it set to be dynamically increasing or fixed?Don't have either program you mentioned to try that. As for the virtual hard disk, it's set for dynamic. I'll try fixed size to see if that makes any difference.Even with it using a fixed size disk, it hangs up. Edited April 9, 2004 by daywalker03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Alanoll not trying to be pushy but you did start this topic????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 11, 2004 Author Share Posted April 11, 2004 whooops, sorry ran into a few probs when reinstallin my computer, it was wierd, kept not being able to find the CAT files because the paths were wrong somewhere. But it worked jsut fine in VirtualPC and VMWare. Oh well..I'll edit this post when I catch up, and wake up.EDIT:just to test, not really to fix the problem. REM out the line OEMSETUP.EXEthen when it gets to the command prompt, try to access the CDROM.also, I was looking and the variable %CDROM% is never actually defined. So.....you may want to try removing /L:%CDROM% or changing it to /L:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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