You have sort of a catch 22 here... Windows does support most all CD Rom
Drives, and the drivers will be auto-installed, from the CDRom Disk, *if* it
can access the Cab files on the CD to install them...
There are two ways to get around this problem...
1) Install DOS drivers that come with most CD Rom drives, or they are
readily available on the net, or at http://freepctech.com or....
2) If you have the free Hard Drive space, just copy all the Win98 Cab files
to a folder on the hard drive first, and install from the hard drive
location. That way you can chuck the CD in a safe location, and forget about
ever using it again, until you re-format the drive!! This way the cab files
are always there!
Good Luck, Steve....
----- Original Message -----
Subject: [PCBUILD] setup Win98 SE second time?
> I've just make a clean install of Win98 SE for may friend computer. He has
a PII 400 Mhz. When the install get to the point where it start to detect
the all the hardwares and it drivers, I started to get several messages
saying that some drivers could not be install because the computer could not
find it in the CD-ROM disc. I have tried different ways to have computer
find the drivers from the Win98 SE CD-ROM disk, but the computer failed to
find it. I then have to proceed with the installation by clicking the
"cancel" button. But when the OS was finished with the process of
installation. I check the device manager and found that there was several
hardwares that had the yellow acclamation point. I knew right away that it
missing the driver. So I have to use the Win98 SE CD-ROM disk to do the
"setup" again. This time though, some of the drivers that was missing
earlier are detected. But not all driver was detect though.
> My question is, why did the computer not detect all the drivers from the
first time I install the OS?
> Sincerely yours,
>
> John Loc.
>
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