daveydoom Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Has anyone ever heard of a "preserved forced install" of Win98? Apparently you can image a machine and install that image on any other machine, regardless of hardware differences and use a switch like:c:\ setup \p f Has anyone heard of this or tried it? There's a little more work to do ahead of time but that's a quick overview. I'm looking for some reading material before I attempt it.Any thoughts? Thanks, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadeTreeLee Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I don't have any comments on the switch given as I've never heard of it before nor do I know exactly in what manner it is to be used but a "universal" Windows installation was always possible if one were to delete everything under the ENUM key in the registry and then one makes an image before rebooting. This would in effect remove all hardware and force Windows to find and install every item listed in the Device Mangler. This trick used to be done for quick installs by swaping out hard drives, but adding the imaging twist should be just another way to do the same thing.Items to delete are under this key:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum]Of course this would not work unless the CAB files were also included in the image from which Windows would then install the hardware specific to the machine it found itself on.Could it be possible that your switch tells setup.exe to do something similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amocanu Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 delete that ENUM key and make a disk image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveydoom Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 Could it be possible that your switch tells setup.exe to do something similar?I believe that's probably the case.Yes, I would have to include the cab files in order for this to work. I was told that doing this would blow away the old registry keys and recretae them for the new hardware.I've never attempted this before so it's a learning experience . To further complicate matters the old PC is setup with a dual boot (Win2k and Win98). Not sure if it will work or not with this twist but Win98 is the important O/S in this scenario, Win2k can always be installed afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 "95/98/ME SETUP SWITCHES":http://www.mdgx.com/last2.htm#SETUPSWHTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveydoom Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Nice . I guess I have some plans for this coming "geekend" lol . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controller Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 (edited) Deleting whole HKLM\Enum regestry may cause some troubles, because it will remove some virtual devices, e.g.:HKLM\Enum\Root\Processor_UpdateHKLM\Enum\Root\SwEnumYou may try to bypass device detection (thing deleting SYSDM.CPL / SYSDETMG.DLL may work), did this for a bootable Windows 98 CD, and reinclude just before creating the image, however I never tried this final step will actually ever detect hardware again. Edited January 30, 2008 by Controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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