Whenever changes are made to Win9x set-up or network configuration,
Windows asks for the CD-Rom to complete the installation.
To bypass the CD-Rom requirement, you can copy all of the the neccessary
Win9x files from the CD-Rom to your hard drive (as long as you've got an
extra 40-75MB of space available).
a) Insert the Win9x CD-Rom; if 'auto-run' is enabled, close the window
that opens when the CD-Rom is inserted.
b) Click on Start => Programs => Windows Explorer to open the file manager application.
c) In the left window, scroll down to the desired hard drive where the
CD-Rom files are to be stored, and single-click on that drive (Note: If
the system does not have multiple drives or partitions, use the C:\
drive).
c) Click File => New => Folder, and create a new folder called Win9x (x =
5 or 8, depending on which version on Windows is being used) on the
specified hard drive.
d) Scroll down in the left window to the CD-Rom drive, and open the Win9x
folder. Locate the .cab files (there should be about 25-30 files with .cab
extension).
e) Select all of the .cab files by left-clicking on the first .cab file,
scrolling down to the last .cab file, pressing the Shift key, and
left-clicking on the last .cab file. This highlights and selects all of
the files between the first and last files selected.
f) When all of the needed files are highlighted, right-mouse click on the
highlighted area and click on Copy.
g) Scroll back up to the newly created Win9x folder on the hard drive, and
left-mouse click to paste files.
The files needed from any Windows set-up modifications are now stored on
the hard drive of the computer.
To ensure that Windows knows where to look for the set-up files, see
Configuring Windows to Find Set-Up Files.