Here is the clean install of Windows Millenium Edition from the Promotional Step-Up disc:
We start with a Windows 98 Startup Disk (or image file in this case). Bear in mind that it needs to be bootable and have CD-Rom support!
So this is the same machine I ran the upgrade from yesterday on. Just going to format the drive and start clean…
Now that the drive is wiped and bootable, we’ll switch over to the CD and begin the install process:
The same scandisk program that started showing up in (I belive) Windows 95C
Now we get to a re-skinned Windows 98 installer:
Now we have the upgrade eligibility check. This one only works if you have a Windows 98 disc of some description. I inserted my Windows 98SE ISO file, pointed it to the install files and it was happy!
We will go through the install customizer now. It was mostly non-existant in the upgrade because it just retained the same settings and whathaveyou. Granted it did add the Web TV crap which took forever to configure. I am skipping that this time, but installing pretty much everything else.
As for the customizing, the Desktop Themes part was the largest part of the install, clocking in at a whole 31.1MB…We can only dream of that these days!
Otherwise there is all of the localization settings, the startup disk (skipped), the network stuff (surprisingly works and I CAN BROWSE THE INTERNET ON WINDOWS ME IN 2018?!)
I’m going to skip most of this part since it is basically the same as before, just blue…
We get a PC Restart…
Which brings the installer back in line with what we hade before with a slightly prettier skin!
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