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asherisOkay, cable modem was to be delivered between 6-9pm last night.
I left the office a little early so I'd be home by 6, and commenced final desk cleaning and did the moving of the computer. Booted up- errors. Doublechecked connections, boots fine.
Modem finally arrives at 8:59pm.
Start hooking things up, and notice computer is showing error messages. It'a Win98, this is part of normal operation. Reboot- tests okay, started win98- fails, because it can't find a couple of files. Crap.
Back to DOS, run scandisk- nothing too out of the ordinary. Try again- no go. Dig up Win98 boot disk, follow directions. It sets up a 2MB "workspace", of which about half a MB is taken up by the files to run it. Start trying to extract the replacement files from the CD- it finds them, starts extraction- ERROR: out of memory. Since each cab file is about 1.8MB, and the extraction process takes space, well, that went over the pre-set (by M$) 2MB workspace ages ago.
So much for the boot disk.
Since I can't access the CD from DOS, this means I have a (seemingly) perfectly good cable modem sitting there all hooked up and my computer won't boot into win98 so I can't install it, much less use it.
GAH.
Had PT this morning so I'm at the office early instead of late, and I've copied the missing files onto nice little floppies so I can take them home and HOPEFULLY get my computer running again.
I left the office a little early so I'd be home by 6, and commenced final desk cleaning and did the moving of the computer. Booted up- errors. Doublechecked connections, boots fine.
Modem finally arrives at 8:59pm.
Start hooking things up, and notice computer is showing error messages. It'a Win98, this is part of normal operation. Reboot- tests okay, started win98- fails, because it can't find a couple of files. Crap.
Back to DOS, run scandisk- nothing too out of the ordinary. Try again- no go. Dig up Win98 boot disk, follow directions. It sets up a 2MB "workspace", of which about half a MB is taken up by the files to run it. Start trying to extract the replacement files from the CD- it finds them, starts extraction- ERROR: out of memory. Since each cab file is about 1.8MB, and the extraction process takes space, well, that went over the pre-set (by M$) 2MB workspace ages ago.
So much for the boot disk.
Since I can't access the CD from DOS, this means I have a (seemingly) perfectly good cable modem sitting there all hooked up and my computer won't boot into win98 so I can't install it, much less use it.
GAH.
Had PT this morning so I'm at the office early instead of late, and I've copied the missing files onto nice little floppies so I can take them home and HOPEFULLY get my computer running again.
