Can't load win98 on virgin disk

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From: David Lindsay
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00

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I have re-formatted my hard disk because of problems and have put on
command.com and io.sys. Using a win98 (and have also tried a win95) boot
disk I am trying to load win98 fresh from a cd.  
Every time I try to load the win98 software I get the following error
message within a few seconds of starting, 'standard mode:invalid dpmi
return from 039f:0906'.  It would appear to be when the win98 setup
program opens up a new screen display.

Some help would be appreciated so I can get the sick computer working
again.
-- 
David Lindsay.

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From: David Lindsay <junk@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Can't load win98 on virgin disk
Date: 2000/01/31
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