From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 00:37:13 EDT
richard.. Eric..
looks like you were both right..
now its on that little windows 98 setup window, updating system settings..
and
finally done..
and i see no differences thus far..
not sure the floppy being there or not had anything to do with it..
another interesting thing, when it came to the serial number window, the 25
character serial number was already displayed..!
Richard Chalk wrote:
> If you wait long enough, it will eventually continue, but it takes a LONG
> time looking for the non-existent floppy drive.
>
> Richard
>
> At 08:53 PM 7/5/99 -0500, Eric Giles wrote:
> >Bill-
> >
> >I am assuming that you have the CD-ROM/DVD drive in the drive bay. Do you
> >happen to have the floppy drive hooked up with the external cable at the
> >same time? I ran into almost the same thing when I originally upgraded my
> >770ED to win98. I remembered from many desktop installs that this is at the
> >point that it accesses the floppy drive. Hooking up the floppy drive solved
> >the installation hang.
> >
> >Hope this helps!
> >
> >Eric Giles
> >
> >NOW, the trouble comes when i try to upgrade to win98 2nd edition...
> >>it loads well, up to the point of the win98 setup window which sets up:
> >>
> >>Control Panel
> >>Programs on the Start Menu
> >>Windows Help
> >>MS-DOS program settings
> >>Tuning up Application Start
> >>System Configueration
> >>
> >>the whole thing gets stuck on the "Programs on the Start Menu" item...
> >>
> >>this has occured while trying to load win98 2nd edition fresh and over
> >>the preload as described above..
> >>
> >>anyone have any thoughts on this..?
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...
> >>
> >>** Bill Morrow ** :-)
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> >>
> >>Including, but not limited to, Subject to prior sale, Your mileage will
> >>vary, Done on a
> >>closed road with a professional driver AND Do not try this at home..
> >>
> >>
-- Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com Thinkpad User Community: http://thinkpads.com/enter.html Compuserve Thinkpad(c) Forum Sysop e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net 770Z-8AU, 760ED, 760CD, (5)701C, 560E, 755CE, 750C et al...
Including, but not limited to, Subject to prior sale, Your mileage will vary, Done on a closed road with a professional driver AND Do not try this at home..
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