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Hey,

one of the suggestions for somewhat convenient-ish DOS development setup
was using WIn98 which runs DOS programs well, and makes things easier
wrt. sharing files over network, to compile, run & debug things on.

archive.org has a virtual box image with win98 SE, that works, eh, out
of the box.

I searched a bit for info and found several references that Win98 can
run the .NET framework up to 2.0.
As that would make things a lot easier for me to whip some some little
tools here and there, that sounded like good news.

archive.org also had a MSDN CD from 2006-april with an installer for
.NET 2.0 that indeed starts on win98.
But it says one requirement is not met - the presense of Windows
Installer 2.0.

Searching a bit more, 2.0 of win installer is indeed also the last
version that Win98 can be retrofitted with.

I have had no luck so far to find an installer-installer that works, though.
I crawled a bit on the MS sites in wayback machine and found an
instmsi.exe and InstMsiA.exe.
Run any of those in the Win98 VM, it claims "already installed".
Well, the .NET 2.0 installer diagrees, but it did see that I installed
the other peculiar requirement at first listed: IE5.01 ...

Anybody got an idea of how I can get  Installer 2 onto my Win98
installation?

P.S. my fallback is thw WinXP VM where I got .NET 4 installed, much
nicer C# version, but a lot worse DOS graphics and sound compatibility
from some first tests. (trying out stuff from the demo folder of the
Allegro multi media library)

- Steve