Upgrade 98 standard to SE

After several days and work arounds I still have not installed 98SE. I have
an old desktop with 98 standard installed. I now have its replacement and
would like to put the old system upstairs for the kids/grandkids to use for
internet access. I purchased a upgrade CD to get to SE so I can go wireless.

I've had so many problem I won't list them all. The biggest problem was the
CD would stall on win98_35 and/or 36.cab. I couldn't even copy these two
files from the DOS prompt so I finally copied all the files from the CD
(except these two) to the hard drive. I used my new XP system and after a
couple of files I copied the CABs to a thumb drive and in turn to the old
system hard drive.

Prior to all this I followed all the knowledge base articles regarding the
upgrade, errors in CD, errors in DLL, etc. as well as removing any startup
pgm, TSR, virus checks etc. The last install was from the hard drive and the
process completed without all the previous errors. On reboot a "old version
error" occurred and using a one of the xx knowledge base articles I fixed
this problem.

On reboot I'm receiving a missing DLL error (registry, system.ini, etc)
file. I believe this is from an HP external CD writer I removed earlier to
eliminate all possible install conflicts.

The problem now is even after what appears to be a "good" install, the
version on the system still is the standard system (windows explorer, about).

About to give up and stick with the standard version and buy a 50' cat 5
cable and fish it through the wall upstairs.

Any options for SE install?

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Thanks...
Jim Tinder

You can't upgrade 98 standard to 98SE because they are two diffrent OS. They
are the same but they have diffrent features. To get 98SE you need to buy it
online only. Try Ebay! good luck!

"Jim T" wrote:

> After several days and work arounds I still have not installed 98SE. I have
> an old desktop with 98 standard installed. I now have its replacement and
> would like to put the old system upstairs for the kids/grandkids to use for
> internet access. I purchased a upgrade CD to get to SE so I can go wireless.
>
> I've had so many problem I won't list them all. The biggest problem was the
> CD would stall on win98_35 and/or 36.cab. I couldn't even copy these two
> files from the DOS prompt so I finally copied all the files from the CD
> (except these two) to the hard drive. I used my new XP system and after a
> couple of files I copied the CABs to a thumb drive and in turn to the old
> system hard drive.
>
> Prior to all this I followed all the knowledge base articles regarding the
> upgrade, errors in CD, errors in DLL, etc. as well as removing any startup
> pgm, TSR, virus checks etc. The last install was from the hard drive and the
> process completed without all the previous errors. On reboot a "old version
> error" occurred and using a one of the xx knowledge base articles I fixed
> this problem.
>
> On reboot I'm receiving a missing DLL error (registry, system.ini, etc)
> file. I believe this is from an HP external CD writer I removed earlier to
> eliminate all possible install conflicts.
>
> The problem now is even after what appears to be a "good" install, the
> version on the system still is the standard system (windows explorer, about).
>
> About to give up and stick with the standard version and buy a 50' cat 5
> cable and fish it through the wall upstairs.
>
> Any options for SE install?
>
> --
> Thanks...
> Jim Tinder