[thelist] Halp!!! W95 Full or a clue?

[Ken Schaefer]

It is a little unclear as to the situation you are in.

Are you saying that the Director has a license for Windows 98, and you have
a Win98SE Upgrade CD, however the upgrade is failing to run for some reason,
and the Directory can not seem to locate his original media (which would
allow the upgrade CD to verify that you have an original full install disc?)

You may have some luck locating a full Win98 CD on eBay or similar (I had a
quick look, and there appear to be copies for ~$40). Alternatively, you can
try contacting your local Microsoft licensing department about securing
replacement media (however, given that Windows 98 has reached end-of-life,
I'm not sure how well you'd do).

Cheers
Ken

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From: "Allen Schaaf" <techwriter at sound-by-design.com>
Subject: [thelist] Halp!!! W95 Full or a clue?


: He has a licence for Win98 first edition and I have a spare
: Win98SE to give him. But I can't use it because it won't let me
: use a full install, only an upgrade disc.
:
: Does anyone have an old Win98SE Upgrade disk floating
: around to do this with?
:
: Or, alternatively, do you know what file I have to re-name
: to make it work? I re-named both system.dat and user.dat
: but that was not it. Or what file should I point it to to make
: it work? Clues?
:
: And I may be in even deeper doo-doo because it can not find the install
: files to tell it that it was a legit W98 first or W95 to do a re-install
of
: the W98 first edition. Now I just get a "kernel error" and it powers off.
I
: still have an old W95 disk somewhere as I can find the CD case, but not
the
: disk!
:
: I'm trying my d$%^est to not do a wipe disk as he has a lot of stuff he
: does not know where the original disks are.