can't install window 98 after formatting

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gade - 10 Apr 2004 22:13 GMT

somebody help!!
after formating my hard disk, i reboot and try to instal
windows 98 with the command d: and then setup, and later
with some switches, but i keep getting the fout report
the command is not correct, can somebody tell me what to
try again?
please

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Jon_Hildrum - 11 Apr 2004 00:59 GMT

First make sure you know the drive letter assigned to your CD rom. It will
appear towards the end of the boot.

Then type the following from the a:> prompt

It would appear as d:\win98\setup assuming d: is the cdrom drive letter.

Typically if you use a boot disk with cdrom support from www.bootdisk.com
the CDROM drive letter is R.

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> somebody help!!
> after formating my hard disk, i reboot and try to instal
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> try again?
> please

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pjp - 11 Apr 2004 06:31 GMT

And if instead it's an Emergency Boot Disk it's probably E: so try
"e:\setup"

However, I suspect they're not even using a floppy to boot the system but
expect the hard drive to do it and are getting a "Command Processor not
found" or similar error message, ignoring that and just trying to enter a
command..

> First make sure you know the drive letter assigned to your CD rom. It will
> appear towards the end of the boot.
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> > try again?
> > please

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Nick Burns - 11 Apr 2004 03:09 GMT

Why not use drive letter: setup

> somebody help!!
> after formating my hard disk, i reboot and try to instal
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> try again?
> please

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