DOS who?

[Gordoncanada]

I am trying to install Windows 98 on the second hard drive in a Compaqu Pentium. The installer only wants to install it on the hard drive the operating system is already on. It says if I want to change the installation to another hard drive, that I will have to restart in MSDOS and use a command prompt.

MSDOS is Greek to me. What can I do? Can anyone out there help me?

Thanks. This is my first posting. Gordoncanada

 

[sebas0]

What operating system have you got on a first hard drive?

 

[Praetor]

1. Boot up via a Windows98 bootdisc (you can probably still download on off Microsoft but dont quote me). Make sure you enable CDROM support

2. When you're at the DOS prompt type D: (or whatever letter corresponds to your CD drive). Then type setup and the installer should start

3. Make sure you point the installation to a different drive -- W98 has a difficult time with multiple OSes on one partition

 

[72montecarlo]

Just wondering because im not to familiar with 98, does the gui setup you run while in windows the same .exe you run in dos? I know this is not so with XP at least.

 

[Praetor]

Roughly yes (unless we are talking about radically different things heehee)