windows 98 installation error

[bawldy]

I re-formatted my hard drive and tried reinstalling windows 98. It went through the whole setup and when it tried starting windows it gave me the following error:
Invalid VxD dnamic call to device number 3, service B
I tried reinstalling again but it did exactly the same thing.
The hard drive is a new 80 meg WD and I partitioned it and formatted it. chkdisk returned no errors.
Can anyone help?

thanks

[Gecko]

This behavior can occur if the System.ini file is blank.
I have found two ways to work around this problem.
1. Start your computer, press and hold CTRL, and then choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only from the Windows 98 Startup menu.
At the MS-DOS prompt, type cd\windows\command, and then press ENTER. Where windows is the name of the folder in which Windows is installed.
At the C: prompt, type scanreg /restore, and then press ENTER.
Select the previous registry you want to restore, and then press ENTER.NOTE: A properly working registry has the word "Started" next to the date.
When you receive notification that you restored a properly working registry, press ENTER to restart your computer.

2. Start your computer, press and hold CTRL, and then choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only from the Windows 98 Startup menu.
Browse to C:\Windows. If no files are visible, click Show Files.
On the View menu, click Folder Options.
On the View tab, click to clear the Hide file extensions for known file types check box, and then click to select the Show all files check box.
Click OK. If no files are visible, click Show Files.
Right-click System.ini, click Rename, type System.old, and then press ENTER.
Double-click the Sysbckup folder in the same directory.
On the View menu, click Details, and then click Name to sort the files by name.
Find the most recent rb*.cab file from before the date and time that the problem started. Double-click this file.
Right-click System.ini, and then click Extract.
In the Choose a Folder in which to save the files box, browse to C:\Windows, and then click OK.