On 1 Nov 99, at 2:09, Walter McKinley wrote:

> I was doing a long overdue Win95 to Win98 upgrade for a friend. It
> is a Packard Bell P150, 32M ram, 6 gig HD, 16x NEC Atapi CD-ROM.
> The first 55 min of the upgrade went fine. After the first
> automatic reboot, Win98 dropped the CD-ROM and couldn't finish
> loading sound drivers, etc. I had to skip through the rest of setup
> in hopes to manually reinstall the CD-ROM. Every attempt to do this
> results in Win 98 needing files from the CD. Transferring .CABs
> temporarily by diskette is not an option because of the special
> 1.6 meg format they use. It has been a long time since someone
> needed help with a Win 98 upgrade. Sorry it is me. Can someone
> remember how to get this CD-ROM reinstalled?

  With a 6GB hard drive, you should be able to set up a partition of
a couple hundred MB and copy the CD to it -- then do the upgrade from
there.  After you get the update installation done, you can look for
a Win98 driver for the CD-ROM drive.

David G

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