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In article <Qr3nOEAdcLm4EwZm@mktres.demon.co.uk>
           news{$}1235@mktres.demon.co.uk "David Lindsay" writes:

> I have none of these in the config.sys

cut...

> Thanks for your help, as none of this worked I am getting very
> desperate.

I have just had to totally re-install a notebook. Created a dos boot
disk from an existing win98 pc. IE the dos is that from win98
and when the dos disk boots it says win98 in the text when loading
dos.

The config.sys only contains
files=20
buffers=8
device= to load cd driver
device= to load page stuff for keyb in autoexec
country=

autoexec.bat only contains
path=a:\dos    where dos utilities copied from windows\command reside
               eg fdik, format, attrib, edit, keyb, mscdex, etc
mscdex to load cd driver
mode= for page stuff
mode= for page stuff
keyb uk,....

which is almost as simple as it can be (except for page stuff
to enable proper keyboard mapping)

Booted from this, ran
format c: /u/s          to clear down hd and put win98-dos onto hd
                        (suppose /s not really required)
then inserted win98 cd and ran d:\win98\setup

No ems,highmem,etc   ie KISS principle

worked wonderfully.
Dunno if this helps...
Only you can tell if you have h/w problems

BTW win98 recognised and set up all the h/w correctly - much to my
surprise, incl pcmcia, screen controller, sound, infrared, the lot...
only got the monitor (lap top 800x600) slightly wrong
(I wasted ages getting all the drivers prior to starting) :(

Ernest
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