Cant install drivers 95 & 98

[mrspeltips]

Hi
When i install windows 95 and 98 and it install drivers for devices its begging for the cd. But i allready have the cd in and when i press OK its doing the same thing again.
When it tells me i could select the destination of the drivers and i choose the cd. It freeze. When i restart a black screen with white text comes up and say something vxd file.

[mpack]

Win98 does that on physical hardware too. It expects to find the CD on the same path it was installed from. Unfortunately (esp. if machine has two HDs?) it has a nasty habit of changing the CD drive letter on first boot after installing. I.e. installer and OS have differing conventions for drive letter assignments. The path is stored in the guest OS registry - Google for details.

Old Win98 hands used to install the OS from an hd folder, to avoid this problem and the equally annoying habit of prompting for the setup CD on every minor hardware change.

[dlharper]

This is particularly a problem with Windows 98, because it creates a RAM disk on first boot. This becomes Drive D: and pushes the CD drive letter one later (probably to Drive E:). Then after booting to the hard disk, the CD becomes Drive D: and the system forgets where it was installed from.

mpack's suggestion is the best way round, but another option is to start from a Windows 95 (OSR1 or later) floppy. Note that a floppy from the original Windows 95 is no good for later versions because it will only format in FAT16.

[mrspeltips]

Thanks, i getted my old windows 95 osr 1 floppy boot disk and converted it into my computer to a ima.
And i dont have clue want i gonna do. Can you please tell me in a easy way.

[mpack]

With respect to DLHarper, IMHO it's poor advice. You want a long term solution, not an inconvenient short term workaround.

The long term solution is to tell Win98 what the correct path is to the setup CD. To do this I believe you run regedit and change the value of the string HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath. You probably just need to correct the drive letter, to that of the VM's CD drive.

[dlharper]

I did say that mpack's suggestion was the best thing to do. My comment was really just to point out a reason for the problem in Win 98, and that the same thing does not happen in Win 95. A result of this is that things can be sorted otherwise if one really wants to.

Myself, I always install from the hard disk, once it has been partitioned and formatted. I find this has several other advantages too, such as always having the installation files available, so not needing to keep on inserting the installation CD.

[mpack]

Which reminds me: I would suggest that the best solution now is to copy the files off the CD and into an hd folder, then use the registry hack above to point to that folder.