got a question about copying cabs over

[GroundZero3]

Probbaly the best thing that microsoft don't tell us how to do it. but im installing win98 back on a hard drive and i want to copy the cabs over so i don't need to keep using the cd.

is it at dos prompt you type C:
C:\ md cabs
c:\cd cabs

what do you type in to copy over the files from the cd??

thanxs

JaYsin

[Mungla]

Ground, I just make a directory on my HD called Windows Cabs, then I just drag and drop the Win98 and drivers directories from the CD into that new directory. Always use Windows Explorer! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[Fingers]

You want to copy the .cab files into a directory that you created on your C: drive named "cabs"... right?

The command "C:\ md cabs" will make a new directory (folder) in the root directory of your hard drive.

The command "C:\cd cabs" will change directory to "cabs" (change you into the "Cabs" folder) which is not really necessary.

From the DOS prompt, change into the Win98 directory (folder) on the CD drive (D:\Win98) then type "copy *.cab C:\Cabs" (without the "quotes")

That will copy all files with the .cab extention in the D:\Win98 directory of the CD-Rom into the C:\Cabs directory on the hard drive.

I hope that's what your looking for.

ps. if Windows is still operational, then "dragging and dropping" with Windows Explorer, like Mungla said, is easier.



[This message has been edited by Fingers (edited 12-25-2000).]

[GroundZero3]

hey thanxs you guys exactley what i was looking for. merry x mas


JaYsin

[Dave_H]

If Windows is already installed and your doing this so you don't get prompted for the disk anymore, you will need to change this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Setup\Sourcepath
Right now it may have something like this:
E:\WIN98\
Change that to reflect the current loacation of the .cab files, in your case:
C:\Cabs\

If your copying the .cabs over thru DOS for a new install, you will want to copy over the setup.exe file into the Cab folder as well. Then CD or change directories to the Cab folder and run the setup from there.
Dave

[Biff]

Not too sure about the reg mod Dave. I've installed Win98 off my hard disk a few times and I've never needed to do that.

[nunyadam]

i believe dave's reg mod is to keep it from asking for the disc during hardware install's,driver updates and such.

[Dovaka]

after every installation the first thing i do is copy the win98 folder off of the cd to the c: the first time it asks me for the cd when i need it i just have to change the e: to a c: then every time after that all i have to do is move my wheel up im going to try that reg edit it would be nice to not even have to do that anymore

[Fingers]

Dave is correct. If you install from the hard drive, the registry will already point to the directory that you installed from, but if you are simply copying the cabs over after the OS was installed from the CD-Rom, then Dave's tweak will tell Windows to look in the correct directory on the hard drive first, instead of defaulting to the CD-Rom.