I am trying to install a D-Link network card (DFE-530TX+).
Compaq, being the smart guys that they are:rolleyes:, only send you a “Quick Restore” disk, instead of actually install disks. Behold my problem…when I go to install the network card, they ask for the Windows 98 Setup disk, the one I don’t have.
Anyone know a way around this? I’m SURE I’m not the one with this problem.
Point to the" options" sub-directory under c:\windows
Point to c:\windows\system
If there is no “options” directory, do a search for where the system *.cab files are located and point the system there for the setup files.
Any network card you install will ask for the Windows 98 CD during driver installation. When it asks for this and you don’t have a Windows 98 CD, try pointing it to
C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS
or
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
or
C:\WINDOWS\INF
None of these are guaranteed to work, since not every OEM puts the .cab files on the hard drive and the SYSTEM and INF folders only usually work if you’ve installed the same network card before. Try your Quick Restore CD anyway. If they’re smart they have stuck the .cab files in
D:\WIN98 (assuming your CD-ROM drive letter is D, may not be)
Another thing to remember is that after it finds what it wants from the .cab files, sometimes the driver installation “forgets” where the actual network card drivers are. So if none of this works, make sure you try pointing it to
A:\
every so often. That’s assuming the network card drivers are on a floppy disk. If they’re in a directory on your hard drive, point it there.
You may need to point it back and forth between the .cab files and the network card driver files a few times. So every time it can’t find something, go ahead and run through all of the above before you give up in frustration. And consider yourself lucky… getting a network card working under DOS/Windows 3.11 was even more complicated than this!
-fh
“they ask for the Windows 98 Setup disk”
Are you sure there isn’t an option when this comes up called ‘browse’? I always get that
option & just point it to the right directory for the files it wants.
Run a search for the cab files, then point to the right directory using “browse.”