[plug] win9[58] setup.exe

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Mon May 29 08:43:30 WST 2000


Bevan Broun wrote:
> The trick was to exit the install program and get to a dos prompt.
> Then we 1) fdisk (it's on the win98 cd)  reboot, exit setup to
> dos prompt again. 2) format the partition with the "format" on the
> win98 cd and reboot. Exit the setup to dos prompt again, and here
> comes the tricky bit, mkdir c:\temp and start setup with "setup
> /T:c:\temp". Now setup knows that it can use the partition and
> doesnt need to remove all files from the disk.

It would be nice if "SETUP /?" _really_ worked. It does lots of stuff
not in the usual help (e.g. "SETUP /Z SQUASHED.EX_ SQUASHED.EXE" will
uncompress a single file). Anyone got the source for it handy? (-:

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