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by carguy1n

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Changing to a 2gig hd, my bios had to be flashed with the Western Digital ez-bios tool to handle the larger than 500mb hd. subsequently when installing win98 ( after partitioning & formatting) it was unable to find a large # of files. it installed but in dos compatibility mode, and no recognition of the cd rom drive anywhere in my computer or from dos prompt.
on boot up I get a vnet.bios missing message. I have thought to provide the system devices with a complete set of mainboard drivers9 which I downloaded to a cd rom(too large for a floppy) but since the os doesn't recognize my cd drive I am unable to make them available......2 questions at least..How can I get the win98 to recognize that there is a cd drive....Is the loading of these drivers a correct approach anyway?....A simple Godlike solution would be well appreciated.

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by thechas

With EZ-Bios, you need to follow a special sequence to boot from a floppy to begin the W98 installation.

Start by running ez-bios again and delete all partitions.

Then, start over again.

At the Ez-bios prompt when booting, press the key forez-bios options.
Select boot from floppy, and insert the W98 startup disk.

Remember this whenever you need to boot from a floppy.

Then, after you get 98 up and running, you need to install system drivers.

Start with the drivers for the motherboard / chipset.

Then, DirectX from Microsoft.
Followed by the driver for your video card.

Then, install drivers for other devices.

Chas

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