Getting Started (2 of 2)

Before Beginning Setup
Starting Setup
Setup Command-Line Switches
Other Misc. Setup Tips

Using Setup Command Line Switches

• Windows 95 Setup provides options to control the installation process. These options, or switches are specified on the command line as arguments for the setup command (such as setup /d). Similar to MS-DOS command arguments, the specific option is preceded by a forward slash (/) character (not the backslash used to specify directory arguments).
  
  
• Windows 95 Setup can be run with the setup command with the following switches:
  
  

   

   

  Switch	Description
  /?	Provides help for syntax and use of setup command-line switches.
  /C	Instructs Windows 95 Setup not to load the SmartDrive disk cache.
  /d	Instructs Windows 95 Setup not to use the existing version of Windows for the early phases of Setup. Use this switch if you have problems starting Setup that might be due to missing or damaged supporting files for Windows.
  /id	Instructs Windows 95 Setup not to check for the minimum disk space required to install Windows 95
  /ih	Runs ScanDisk in the foreground so that you can see the results. Use this switch if the system fails stalls during the ScanDisk check or if an error results.
  /iL	Loads the Logitech mouse driver. Use this option if you have a Logitech Series C mouse.
  /iq	Instructs Windows 95 Setup not to perform the Scan Disk quick check when running Setup from MS-DOS. You probably want to use this switch if you use compression software other than DriveSpace or DoubleSpace.
  /is	Instructs Windows 95 Setup not to perform the Scan Disk quick check when running Setup from Windows. You probably want to use this switch if you use compression software other than DriveSpace or DoubleSpace.
  /nostart	Instructs Windows 95 to copy a minimal installation of the required Windows 3.x DLLs used by Windows 95 Setup, and then to exit to MS-DOS without installing Windows 95
  script_filename	Instructs Windows 95 to use settings in the specified script to install Windows 95 automatically; for example, setup msbatch.inf specifies that Setup should use the settings in MSBATCH.INF.
  /t:tempdir	Specifies the directory where Setup is to copy its temporary files. This directory must already exist but and existing files in the directory will be deleted.

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• This following section contains tips or other useful things to know about the Windows 95 Setup. This list is not organized in any fashion or way so you may have to read quite a bit of information to find what you are looking for.
  
  
• If a previous attempt to install Windows 95 has failed, Windows 95 Setup provides and option to uset eh Safe Recovery feature or to run a full new Setup process. If the Safe Recovery dialog box appears when you start Windows 95 Setup, you should select the Use Safe Recovery option. When you select this option, Windows 95 Setup can use built-in methods to avoid problems that occurred previously.
  
  
• When you run Windows 95 Setup from MS-DOS (rather than Windows), ScanDisk runs in interactive mode. If you choose not to fix errors that ScanDisk finds or if you try to exit before ScanDisk is finished, Setup will not continue. By default, ScanDisk checks all drives, except the A drive if you run Setup from floppy disks.
  
  
• When you run Windows 95 Setup from Windows 3.x or Windows for Workgroups, Setup runs ScanDisk in a non-interactive mode. If ScanDisk finds errors, Setup asks you to exit Windows and run ScanDisk as a standalone program. If ScanDisk finds only long filenames, Setup allows you to continue. Lost clusters are not detected, nor are mismatched FAT file systems or certain other file system problems.
  
  
• When you run Windows 95 Setup on a computer with MS-DOS DoubleSpace or DriveSpace compressed drives, ScanDisk treats these as regular compressed volumes and also checks your host volumes. If SSTOR (or any other compression software from another vendor) is in memory, then ScanDisk acts as if it doesn't see any compressed drives and treat all drives as normal FAT drives.
  
  
• If you are upgrading to Windows 95 from a previous version of Windows and choose to install Windows 95 in another directory instead of the one which contains you're previous version of Windows, you may need to reinstall Windows-based applications because Windows95 uses a different method from Windows 3.x for storing configuration information, and because application support files such as DLLs will be missing from the Windows 95 directory. Windows 95 Setup cannot transfer this information automatically.
  
  
• You cannot migrate system settings and group setting under Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.x by copying all the .GRP and .INI files into the new installation directory. This does not work with Windows 95, because .GRP files and .INI file entries cannot be used by Windows 95 unless Windows 95 Setup migrates this information into the Registry. You must run Windows 95 Setup and install Windows 95 in the existing Windows directory to migrate .GRP and .INI file information from Windows 3.x.
  
  
• If you decide to continue Setup even though there is insufficient disk space, the installation might be incomplete. If Setup runs out of disk space, it stops and displays and error message; you must free additional disk space and then run Setup again.
  
  
• If your computer is connected to a Windows NT domain, be sure to configure Client for Microsoft Networks to specify the correct domain for logon validation. This ensures that you can log on to your preferred domain and your network printer selections are available automatically. If you do not specify a domain name when you are installing Windows 95 from source files on the network, Setup might not be to access required files for completing the final stages of installation.
  
  

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