Starting existing Win98 installation from a floppy?

[Bonge Boo!]

I'm going senile. I want to be able to boot my existing Windows 98
installation from a floppy disk. How the hell do I do this?

I've tried various boot disks, startup disks and none of them work.

I can get a DOS prompt, then windows/win <return> starts booting Windows.
Then it hangs.

Clean installation. I'm sure this is easy, but can't remember how?

[Marcus Houlden]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:14:03 +0100, Bonge Boo! <bing...@spamcop.net>
wrote the following to uk.comp.os.win95:

I'm guessing you're using a boot disk made either with FORMAT A: /S, SYS A:
or "create bootable disk". Using any of these methods leaves off various
files that Win9x need to start. Specifically these files are:

* HIMEM.SYS
* IFSHLP.SYS
* DBLBUFF.SYS
* SETVER.EXE
* EMM386.EXE

HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE might already be loaded in the CONFIG.SYS you do
have. Without IFSHLP.SYS especially Windows will not load. Copy all these
files to the boot disk and add:

DOS=AUTO

to your CONFIG.SYS. You can either have this as a separate line or combined
with other DOS commands, such as

DOS=HIGH, AUTO

or

DOS=HIGH, UMB, AUTO

This should get it up and running. For more details on
the DOS command, see http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/command.php?name=DOS

mh.
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[Bonge Boo!]

On 4/7/05 21:35, in article slrndcj79...@neutron.nukesoft.co.uk,
"Marcus Houlden" <sp...@nukesoft.co.uk> wrote:

Many thanks. Will give it a crack tomorrow.

[Roy Schestowitz]

Bonge Boo! wrote:

I still don't think that Windows is supposed to hang. I use Windows 98 on an
antiquated laptop and a startup disk overrides the setting on the
hard-drive to boot into Windows successfully. I am assuming that Windows
began to hang so you used the safety floppy disk which simply did not offer
a solution. Is that correct? If so, have you tried safety mode yet?

Roy

[Bonge Boo!]

On 5/7/05 03:41, in article dacs04$o17$1...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk, "Roy
Schestowitz" <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:

Nope, completely clean install of Windows, all fine.

The reason is I have an existing Win2k installation on my C drive. I know
need to dual-boot. So rather than knackering my Win2k installation by
whacking 98 on that disk, I have put another drive in. However it shows up
as the D drive. I have tried editing the 2k boot loader but it fails to see
the Win98 partition.

Ideally I would have a boot floppy that I could use to boot 98 from the D
drive when I (very infrequently need it).

Otherwise I guess I can install 2k over 98, make that disk C, then try to
get my existing 2k isntallation working when it suddenly becomes the D
drive.

Past experience has shom me that Windows really doesn't like drive change
letters.

Does that make sense?

[Chris Bolus]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:25:19 +0100, Bonge Boo! <bing...@spamcop.net>
wrote:

>
>The reason is I have an existing Win2k installation on my C drive. I know
>need to dual-boot. So rather than knackering my Win2k installation by
>whacking 98 on that disk, I have put another drive in. However it shows up
>as the D drive. I have tried editing the 2k boot loader but it fails to see
>the Win98 partition.
>
>Ideally I would have a boot floppy that I could use to boot 98 from the D
>drive when I (very infrequently need it).
>
>Otherwise I guess I can install 2k over 98, make that disk C, then try to
>get my existing 2k isntallation working when it suddenly becomes the D
>drive.
>
>Past experience has shom me that Windows really doesn't like drive change
>letters.
>

Does your motherboard not have an option to select the boot drive? I can
choose which drive I boot from; this is not a new computer either. I
used to be able to choose to boot to 98 or XP, before the 98 drive
failed :-/
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