Re: I give up...........

I appologize if I mention something that you may have already tried, but i'm
coming into this thread quite late in the game....

It's easy to give erronious advice based on the fact that a person says he
has a Dell XPS. Need to be a bit clearer sometimes to make sure we don't get
confused between the old XPS systems and the current XPS gen x systems.

That said, If I may, here is the way I normally install Win98 on a system.

Start with some sort of Win98 boot floppy, and add the format.exe file to
it.

Boot to the floppy choosing CD-Rom support, fdisk the drive if needed, then
format /s the HD.

Put the Win98 CD in the CD-Rom drive.

Go to the C: drive and create a directory (i usually name it 'win98cd') to
copy the setup files to.

Change to the CD-Rom drive, typically E:

Change to the 'win98' directory and take a directory listing to make sure
you're in the right place.

Copy the contents of the E:\win98 directory to the C:\win98cd directory. no
need to worry about sub-directories, they're not needed.

If you were able to copy the contents to the C: drive, you have just proved
that the CD is readable.

Re-boot the system and boot fronm the HD.

change to the c:\win98cd directory and run setup.exe from there.

Installation should now procede normally. If it hangs somewhere during the
install, it would again point to a hardware problem.

Over many years, I've discovered that by copying the files to the HD and
running the setup from there accomplishes several things.

Once you get the system ready, setup runs much faster than from the CD.

Because you have copied the files to the HD , any time in the future you add
or modify the system or it's components and it asks for the CD, just
re-direct it to the C:\win98cd directory. No more searching for the CD.

Because you ran the original setup from the C:\win98cd directory, Win98
should by default look in that directory the next time it needs files from
the CD.


Again I appologize if I'm suggesting something you've already tried.

BTW, should I assume that the Dell diagnostic lights on the back show all as
green?

Good luck.

"Vince" <holvbphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ATqIe.2256$9v3.766@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Ben Myers wrote:
>> A system hang is a symptom of some sort of hardware problem. I cannot be
>> more
>> explicit without a more exacting description of when, where and how the
>> system
>> hangs. You've checked and double-checked all the BIOS settings for
>> consistency
>> and correctness? ... Ben
>>
>> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:51:20 -0400, Vince <holvbphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Ben Myers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Fine. Maybe we're getting somewhere. IIRC, the XPS 266 system is not
>>>>able to
>>>>boot from CD-ROM. So go to www.bootdisk.com and download the file
>>>>98BOT10A.EXE.
>>>>Use it to create a Windows 98 boot floppy. Insert floppy in drive.
>>>>Insert Win
>>>>98 CD in CD-ROM drive. Boot the system from floppy, switch to the R:
>>>>drive, and
>>>>enter the SETUP command at the DOS prompt. That will start up the
>>>>Windows 98
>>>>install. If it does not, the Windows 98 CD may be defective.
>>>>
>>>>And PLEASE! Tell us the exact hardware configuration you are dealing
>>>>with!!!
>>>>
>>>>... Ben Myers
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Ben I just downloaded the above all it does is create the same WIN98SE
>>>floppy as Control Panel's add/delete programs does which hangs the system
>>>when I try to use it.
>>
>>
> Yes unless I still missed something


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