98SE setup error!

[Allan]

I thought you said it was a raw drive.

[Cityscape]

I is but I also had a 3.2 GB disk and a 500 MB disk.

I've now run fdisk like you told me and everything seems to be fixed.
I'll let you know if it isn't.

[Allan]

Okay - good deal. Hope it's all working.

[Cityscape]

Well that problem was fixed but I now have a worse problem.

I always get the attached error message, but often for different files.

Anyone know anything about this?

[attachment deleted by admin]

[Salmon Trout]

Could be a CD problem (Is this a burned or a pressed disk? ) and/or CD drive and/or RAM

[Cityscape]

Could be a CD problem (Is this a burned or a pressed disk? ) and/or CD drive and/or RAM

I burned the CD from an ISO and i found the CD was corrupt.

I re-burned it and I now have 98 SE installed.

Thanks all.

[Salmon Trout]

Where did you get the ISO from?

[Allan]

Where did you get the ISO from?

What's the difference? He's in good shape now.

[Salmon Trout]

What's the difference?

Because we don't help with piracy, and because downloaded ISOs can be corrupted.

[Allan]

Again, it's all over - what's the difference?

[Salmon Trout]

Again, it's all over - what's the difference?

These threads are not just read by those who start them, and those who answer, they are indefinitely available to the whole world, and a clarification of forum policy may well have the effect of discouraging the type of question which cannot be answered.

[Allan]

Please. Now you're just being silly. The OP has solved his problem and the thread is essentially closed. I run a forum just like this one so I know all about discouraging posts involving illegal software. Your question makes no sense. But okay, let's just let it be, shall we?

[Salmon Trout]

Please. Now you're just being silly.

Please do not address me thus.

I run a forum just like this one

But not this one.

let's just let it be, shall we?

see above.

[Cityscape]

Please Salmon Trout, could we in the the future refrain from arguing on the fourm. As you yourself said "they are indefinitely available to the whole world", so people who read this post in the future do not want to see a bunch of people arguing. They want a post with good information and not what's beginning to happen in this post.

And for your info a ISO does not mean it has anything to do with pirated software. I can rip an ISO from any Cd I want to (including 98, XP, Vista, Linux, Mac OS X...).

Because we don't help with piracy.

Our job as a member of this forum is to help anyone who needs help. If someone is using an illegal copy of XP and he has a software install problem we (i would at least but I do hope others would) help him/her fix it.
I am certainly against anyone using illegal software. And if anyone came here asking where to download MS DOS or something I would certainly not help. This is the kind of situation where you "don't help with piracy", not telling someone "I won't help you because your not using genuine Windows".