Subj : Re: Win98SE install?
To   : Vince Coen
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Wed May 24 2000 11:53 pm

-=> Vince Coen wrote to Christer Jacobsson <=-

 CJ> I'm considering buying a copy of Win98 SE for my new computer to which I
 CJ> will transfer all data that lies on the HD:s of my current computer.
 CJ> Amongst other things, a copy of Win 3.1 is installed on my current
 CJ> computer.

 CJ> Can I buy a Win98 SE upgrade and install it on the same partition as my
 CJ> Win3.1 installation, or must I buy the full Win98 SE package instead? A
 CJ> upgrade box costs considerably less than a full install box.

 VC> If you wish to upgrade your copy of Win 3.1 with Win 98 SE
 VC> then of course you can and MUST use an copy of WIN 98
 VC> Upgrade. If you use the Full release version it will
 VC> complain that an operating system exists already and will
 VC> refuse to install.

Many people use OEM or Full Release versions to install onto a system with an
existing operating system-- this is, in fact, necessary in many cases, to fix a
broken installation, if a user only has an OEM CD and doesn't want to format
and start clean, so that they can keep their existing application installations
(etc).

There are several ways to 'trick' it into installing over an existing system...
what I do is boot to DOS, make sure I can access the CD drive, then:

CD \Windows
REN Win.com Winbak.com  (or whatever name you like)
D:   (or whatever the CD drive is)
Setup

Setup checks for the existence of Win.com-- when it doesn't find it, it happily
installs over top of the existing installation, preserving all settings.
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