Hi all. Don't know if anyone is watching this thread, but I'd like to ask for some advice. I'm also trying to install Win98SE on a Dell D600, and I keep hitting the same roadblock. I can get the setup running, and it goes nearly to completion, but it stops at exactly the same point for Win98, Win98SE, and ME. When it hits the part of the setup wizard where it says "Programs on the Start Menu", it does a hard stop and becomes completely unresponsive.
To keep it simple, I'm using the factory 80Gb hdd with a single 2Gb primary FAT16 partition. My install routine for 98/98SE is to boot with a Win98SE floppy and FDISK and FORMAT C: /S, then I boot from a USB stick and copy all of the source files to c:\win98\, reboot to the C: drive, and then run SETUP.EXE, and I've tried nearly every SETUP.EXE switch I can find to see if that helps.
My install routine with ME is slightly different: boot from a Win98SE floppy, FDISK and FORMAT C: (no /s), boot from USB, copy source files to C:\WINME\, reboot with a WIN98SE floppy, and then run C:\WINME\SETUP.EXE.
All of the above is because I don't have the CD drive for the D600, and I don't have an older parallel port or PCMCIA external CD drive any more... and I can't make any of my USB CD/DVD drives work with any of the special boot floppies around.
TIA
Yappi