Jun Qian said...

>Nospin website has the instructions you need for installation of win98, it
>is not much different from win95, but I do want to make some suggestion to
>avoid possible problems:...

>...2)Do not use any DOS driver unless it is 200% necessary, if your computer
>supports boot from CD, then boot from win98 CD, you don't need any floppy
>disk for the installation. For odd reasons, windows may set itself into DOS
>compatibility mode if there is DOS driver exist (remove DOS driver may not
>correct the problem unless you hack windows registry).

I have a great deal of respect for the effort you put into subscriber queries and wondered if you would enlighten me as to why one should avoid DOS drivers or even allowing Windows to run in DOS compatibility mode. I have seen this before and thought it a normal part of the Windows set-up.

Thanks.

Regards Roger.


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