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From: Mike Sensney <msensney AT owt DOT com>
Subject: Re: About Micro$quash DOS 7 (hiding in Win98).
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/nm Bypass the check for minimum processor (66MHz 486) 

That was what I was looking for. 
This is such a good list. :-)

I also did a search as you suggested. I hadn't realize that MS had stuck so
many switches into setup. Very interesting. 

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q186/1/11.asp
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/setupsw.html

At 03:13 AM 10/17/2000 -0700, Robert W Moss wrote:
>You can try setup /nm  (supposed to bypass detection of CPU if yours
>doesn't meet minimum 
>requirements, such as older 386/486 CPU's. )
>
>There is also setup /p  f      to create a new registry if yours is
>corrupted. 
>
>Then there is setup /ntldr which is supposed to ignore the old system and
>allow you to install 
>WIN98 on any Intel PC with Win95 installed.  ( I have personally had a
>little trouble 
>with this one trying to install an OEM Version of Win98 over a Win 95
>installation.  It always 
>tells me I have to have an upgrade version of Win 98.  Then I have had to
>delete the windows\ 
>system folder and all the C:\ (root) boot files.)  
>
>There is at least one more command line switch I didn't record.  You can
>go out on 
>the WWW and use something like the Altavista search engine and search for
>
> WIN 95/98 setup switches to look for updated information.  
>
>BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS  "Chocolate is a vitamin"

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