How to load windows 98 on new computer?

[Hobbs28]

I will be building my first computer tonight. I have a full copy of Win95 and a 98se upgrade. What if any problems can I expect when I load it?

Thanks
Hobbs28

 

[HobbesAB]

Most of my problems always happen AFTER I've loaded Windows Actually, if you have all of the drivers for your components, boot-up disks, etc then you can expect the installation to go pretty smooth.

Helpful suggestion: After you've loaded win98 as well as a handful of the necessary apps you'll need (ACDsee, winzip, the latest Windows updates, etc) use something like Norton's Ghost and make an image file of your installation. Burn it on to CD and safely store it away. If something goes wrong later on and you don't have the time or don't weant to spend the time to fix it, then you can load the image file and be back up and running in 20 minutes.

I usually load everything I use (minus games)and make a compressed image file using ghost. It takes a few minutes longer, but I can compress a ~900-1000 MB installation and compress it to ~640 MB. Perfect for CD. You can also make it bootable using Adaptec Easy CD Creator or something like it to save you more time in the future.

Good luck tonight.

AB

 

[Psychoholic]

I'm not trying to belittle you here, but you do realize you don't have to install 95 first then 98 on top of it don't you??? You can put the 98 disk in, and it will ask to check your 95 CD for verification that you own it.

I know it might sound obvious but you'd be surprised at the number of people I've seen that don't realize this.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I did the same thing a few weeks ago and the only problem I had was that the win98se CD was not bootable and there was not boot disk. After you boot the computer with anything, you can run the installation program on the CD. It will do some junk and then ask you to put in the win95 CD after that, everything should run smoothely.

 

[Jhex]

Here's a quick way to install it. create /win95 and /win98 folders. from the 95 cd, copy all the cab files to the /win95 directory, then do the same with the 98 cd and the /win98 folder. then just run setup from the /win98 folder.