I am trying to instal windows 98 onto a P3 I have but have run into a problem
I go to the windows setup, and it wants to run scandisk first like always, but then runs surface scan, and as of right now its at 13% done after an hour. Is there a way to skip this (I cant remember) or anything I can do? If you need specs
Intel 845 mobo wit a P3@733Mhz
WD 60 Gb drive that was just formatted with the FAT32 file sys

/?
This switch provides help for the available Setup switches, along with the correct command-line syntax to use them.

/c
This switch bypasses SMARTDrive.

/d
This switch bypasses using your existing Windows configuration.

/l
This switch enables a Logitech mouse during Setup.

/n
This switch lets Setup run without a mouse.

-s
This switch will allow you to use an alternate Setup.inf file.

/t:
This switch lets you specify where Setup will copy the temporary setup files. WARNING: All files in this folder will be deleted.

/ig
This switch will allow Setup to run on older Micron and Gateway computers that have an early BIOS.

/ih
This switch makes Setup run ScanDisk in the foreground.

/im
This switch bypasses the conventional memory check. Use /iq if ScanDisk fails or if you use the /is switch to bypass ScanDisk.

/iq
This switch stops Setup from checking your drive for cross-linked files.

/is
This switch bypasses running ScanDisk.

/it
This switch bypasses checking for the presence of terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs) that are known to cause problems with Windows Setup.

/p
This switch forces Setup to pass string(s) directly to Detection Manager (or Sysdetmg.dll) without interpreting the contents of the string. The string can contain one or more detection options.

How would I use that?
If I go to the command line the only drive that I can switch to is C: no E or F for the optical drives, but they do show up and are detected in bios

The drive was already formatted, and am now installing from the cd...I just put it in and select to start windows 98 setup from the cd rom, So i am still stuck watching a slow progress bar, but I appriciate the help

You need to format a boot disk with the Oak CDROM drivers. If I remember correctly, it is under system in control panel. It's been so long since I had a W98 system I forgot. Another pimp can get more specific.

under system? its in add/remove programs....

Ok, I put the drive into my main machine and in My Computer it shows 55.8 gigs free, but then if I right click it and go to format the only size i can use is 7.84gigs in FAT32...What the hell?

Quote: Originally posted by Ben Ok, I put the drive into my main machine and in My Computer it shows 55.8 gigs free, but then if I right click it and go to format the only size i can use is 7.84gigs in FAT32...What the hell?

That's normal for win98 ... it's easiest to just leave it alone & use C: for the OS & most apps, then use FDisk or Partition Magic to create a D: drive & put all your data on that.