Windows 98/ME creating setup disk

[Joriz]

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to create installation/setup disk from an exisiting installed windows 98/me?? I have a notebook that doesnt have CDROM drive but has a floppy drive. The problem is i dont have any floppy setup disks for windows.

Moreover i have a installation CD for windows 98SE. can i also create installation disks from CD to floppy disks??

Please me help me out guys...

thanks.

[Briyun]

I haven't used Me, but for Win98, you can do one of two things (maybe more, but these are the only two that I know of)

1. Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
- There's a tab for Startup disk, just follow the instructions.

2. Because my OS wouldn't create a Startup disk using #1 up there, another member (Lailoken) gave me the following address:http://www.user-friendly.net/download/download.htm

Find your OS and d-load the appropriate file. (Copy the downloaded file onto a disk and it will be the same thing as a system created disk)

In regard to your other question, if I'm understanding you correctly, you want to know whether you can copy a full version of Win98se onto floppy's?

As far as I know (I'm open for correction!) that would take a whole lotta floppy's, and I wouldn't know how to bridge the copying from one floppy to another in sequence. I repeat, there may be a way, but I've no idea how to do it.

Good luck, keep us posted:cool:

[Joriz]

reply...I think your point #1 and #2 will just create me a startup disk..actually i want to create a new installation diskettes from my existing windows 98/me, the whole bunch of them. it doesnt matter how many floppies it will take. but thats the idea. I have a notebook without CDROm drive and i need to install windows in it..

any ideas?

[Briyun]

I gotcha...

I found a utility program (Freeware) that you can d-load from cnet that will allow you to copy a large amount of data onto successive floppys (Hopefully it will work with an entire program)

If you're stuck with no solution, give it a shot

MKopy Download (http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10096-100-1548054.html?tag=st.dl.10014-103-1.lst-7-7.1548054)

Good luck! :cool:

[strangerstill]

So have I... it's called WinZip.

The fewer floppies you use the better, in my experience.

Also, it might be worth investing in a serial or parallel cable to do a direct cable connection, it'll still take ages but you'll be able to leave it to it & not spend ages shuttling fdds back and forth.

[Xeroid]

What Briyun is talking about is a file splitter program. It allows you to take a large file (such as a CAB) file that is too large to fit on a single floppy and split it into parts that will fit. Then after the transfer of these smaller units the same program is used to rejoin the parts into the original large file. It works but is time consuming.

Mike

[Joriz]

program wont work...coz even tho i can be able to zip all the files necessary to the other computer running dos..i cannot be able to extract it since i winzip runs on windows only.. Is it possible to extract it using PKunzip?? or PKzip for dos is more appropriate?? do we winzip for dos?? (altho its ironic to call it WINzip if it runs on DOS..:>) will it destroy the long filenames??

Altho really i think Laplink might be the best bet. i was just wondering if there can be other way raither buying a laplink cable. I used laplink long time ago..if i do that, will it also support long filenames considering im running the client on a dos version??

splitter program?? whats that program exactly?? or its like pkzip or winzip just the same??

thanks guys..i really apprecaite yor help.

[strangerstill]

Oh yeah, should have thought of that [sound of wrist being slapped]

I recommend WinACE http://www.winace.com/; it can create DOS sfx (self-extracting .exe) files & has full support for spanning.

As for filenames, I'm pretty sure (looks at cd...yep) that the Win98SE CD uses 8.3 filenames.

[strangerstill]

A splitter is very simple; it splits files into 1.4MB (or whatever) size chunks, no compression.

[Explorer]

While the methods mentioned in the posts will create floppies with all the files on them, you will almost certainly have problems actually using them for an install as they will not have the necessary file pointers to tell you when to change disk one with disk two, etc.

However you could, after creating the floppies, copy their contents to a folder on the hard drive of the target computer then run setup from the hard drive.

This has the additional advantage of avoiding Windows asking for the installation CD everytime you install something that needs a file off the CD. It will know it was installed from the folder containing the copied files and just go their for them.

The setup files on my hard drive consume 120Mb of disk space so you may have a problem with an older computer with a smallish hard drive.

Hope this helps.

[Joriz]

you...:> thanks agen..:>

[Joriz]

Pkzip for dos......its a shareware too...it apparently serves me just fine..but ill check the winace splitter software..such different approach is highly welcomed in my book..thanks man!

i just need more diskettes. wew! this can take me forever..hehehe..:>