Modem is installed...

[alexpgp]

The PDF file I referred to in the previous tablet turned out to be the August 2000 newsletter for the Rochester Computer Society. There, a fellow by the name of Frank Howden explained how he helped install Windows 98 on a friend's computer. The symptoms he reported were the same I was experiencing ("...as I ran the manufacturer’s install disk, Windows halted with the message, "file ‘filexfer.cnt’ is missing from E:\Win98...").

Howden then explained how, since the modem was designed for Windows 95, he decided to dig out his Win95 Install CD and look for the files there.

He found them. The rest of his writeup describes his travails searching for and copying a number of required files onto floppy disks, and then feeding them into the machine on which he was installing Win98.

I decided to take the short way around and simply stuck in an old Win95 install CD in zaika's drive and got the install finished in about 2 minutes.

Sometimes it pays to be audacious <giggle>.

Now, I really have to get to work.

Cheers...

Comments

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

This has nothing to do with your post. I hope you don't mind but I have a question. What, if anything, is the Russian version of the name Frank?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

By a "Russian version," it take it you mean something more or less equivalent (e.g., Theodore <-> Fyodor, Andrew <-> Andrei, Alexander <-> Aleksandr).

In my experience, there is no Russian name that stands in the same relation to "Frank" (or to "Francis," for that matter). I've always seen it transliterated.

Cheers...