Installing Win9x (was: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 May 2002

Jeez, this list has gotten so OT . . .

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  From: Richard Erlacher &lt;edick(a)idcomm.com&gt;

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  I don't see how it could be any easier to install
than Win98.  I just put the
...
  CD in the drive and reset the machine.  Then I go
away, to lunch, perhaps, and
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  when I'm back the drive is freshly formatted as a
single partition under FAT32
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  and the OS is completely installed, the drivers in
place, the modem ready to
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  align with the internet parameters it wants (server
names, addresses, etc) and
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  then I can install applications. 
Richard, I don't know what version of Win98 you are using, and I'm not
familiar with your hardware, but I do two or three installations of Win9x
every day, and in 95% of the cases I have to provide device drivers for
something in the system.  It is rare that Win9x will provide all of the
drivers for the sound, modem, video, and IDE controller.

Perhaps you are using a "restore" disk which came with your eMachine,
Compaq, HP or Gateway computer?

Glen
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