Windows 98 Setup Help Please

[Sean]

Can anyone help me. When I try and run setup for Windows 98 I get a
message

Setup must be able to create short filenames with numeric tails for
files with names longer than 8 characters.
Enable this option and try running setup again.

I have try to fix this but have had no luck. Can anyone help

[JDR]

What kind of installation are you trying to run?
Clean or upgrade over previous version?
JDR
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[Deepwood]

I ran into this problem trying to upgrade over win95A. What I ended
up doing is copy the win98 directory from the cdrom to the hard drive
and then restarted the machine in DOS mode. CD into the win 98
directory and run setup. I have no idea why that message came up or
where you would go to enable the option they're talking about but
installing from DOS mode worked and got me to where I needed to go.
Good luck.

Rick

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:Can anyone help me. When I try and run setup for Windows 98 I get a

:

[James Marrs]

>
>Can anyone help me. When I try and run setup for Windows 98 I get a
>message
>
>Setup must be able to create short filenames with numeric tails for
>files with names longer than 8 characters.
>Enable this option and try running setup again.
>
>I have try to fix this but have had no luck. Can anyone help
>

Sean

Here's the text of a MSKB article to correct:

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To resolve this behavior, follow these steps:

1. Use Registry Editor to delete the NameNumericTail string value in the
following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

2. Restart your computer.

3. Run Windows 98 Setup.

MORE INFORMATION
================

The "NameNumericTail=0" value causes the 8.3 alias for long file names not
to use a numeric tail (a tilde [~] followed by a digit at the end of the
file name). For example, if you add the "NameNumericTail=0" value to the
registry (as documented on page 688 of the Microsoft Windows 95 Resource
Kit), the 8.3 alias for the Program Files folder may be changed from
Progra~1 to Programf. This can cause problems if you attempt to run or
install a program that uses the Program Files folder.

For additional information about long file name support in Windows, please
see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q142982
TITLE : How Windows 95 Generates 8.3 File Names from Long File
Names

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Version : WINDOWS:95
Platform : WINDOWS
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