My home-bilt desktop has three hard drives & TRIOS hard drive selector:
1) 40 gig drive with Win98SE installed. [primary internet access]
2) 10 gig drive partitioned 50/50 with Win98SE [backup copy] and Red Hat Linux 8.0
3) 10 gig drive currently holding Xandros Linux 3.0 OCE.

My "problem" is with drive #2, [to make a long story short] I attempted to reinstall Red Hat and "accidentally" over-wrote Win98SE using the entire drive !! When I realized what I had done, I set about to do a "clean" reinstall of Win98SE.

I formatted the 10 gigs [9530 Mbytes according to Fdisk] into two 4769 Mbyte partitions. This is where the trouble started, when I ran my Win98SE CD I got the error message -

"Windows setup requires 7340032 bytes available...."

The 4769 Mbyte partition is where Win98SE was PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED !!! I seem to recall this "space message" years ago on a previous installation and I don't remember how I solved it ???

Need help !!!!

Run the setup with the /id switch.

ie; From the (A:\>?) prompt, in MSDOS;

A:\>setup /id

This precludes the hard disk space check.

( http://www.windowsgalore.com/windows.95/setup.switches.html )

danpenny,

Thanks for response. I'm over my "Senior Moment" !!!

Actually I reformatted the C: partition with the "/S switch" and everything fell into place.

I now have Win98SE and Red Hat 8.0 reinstalled as a dual boot.

Thanks again.