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Snowman
06-20-2002, 11:21 PM
Does anyboby know the switches for setup. I lost the list I had, and the only one I remember is to stop scandisk from running

setup/IS

Farabomb
06-20-2002, 11:39 PM
Throw the disk in, boot to DOS, type c:>setup /? and I think that will give you a list.

Snowman
06-21-2002, 12:19 AM
Thanks :)

FYI, here is the list...

/? A list of the Setup switches.

/D Disable present Windows configuration.

/C Setup will not load SmartDrive

/IQ Does not check for cross-linked files

/ID Skips the disk-space check.

/IM Skips the memory check.

/IN Runs Setup without the Network Setup module

/IR Setup will not attempt to write to the boot sector.

/IS Does not run ScanDisk.

/IT Setup will not check for the TSR's

/L Loads the Logitech mouse driver C

/N Run Setup without a mouse.

/NM Bypass processor detection

/PA Setup uses only Safe Detection of hardware

/PN Disables windows recovery mode

/PB Prompts you before a detection module

/P F Creates a new Registry. (There's a space between the letters)

/T:TMPDIR Specifies the directory where Setup will copy the temporary files.If the directory doesn't exits, Setup will create it. Any existing files in the directory will be deleted.