"hilarowg" wrote in message
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On May 3, 5:30 pm, "philo" wrote:
"xskarmah" wrote in message

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I got a laptop free and wanted to install 98 on it, a clean install for
my
nephew. I burned a bootcd, and managed to format and partition it, my
trouble
starts because I dont have another disk drive to put the iso I have in,
I
only have the one drive, the laptop does not have a Floppy drive.

Any suggestions? Whenever I try and use any setup commands I get invalid
media trying to read disk

Win98 cd's at least legit ones are generally bootable
so you do not need a floppy

Great idea, but the CD is not a boot option and the bios has no way to
make it a boot option. Any suggestions?



Well, as it turns out...it looks like not all cd's are bootable anyway.
I have kind of lost track of the threads here...and I think someone else
made this suggestion...
but here is how I load win98 on laptops that have no cd or floppy drive.

I get a laptop HD to ide adaptor such as this
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...=906&sku=17705

Normally they only cost a few bucks

All you have to do is temporarily put the drive into a desktop pc
then copy the entire win98 folder over to the laptop HD...
(the drive should of course be partitioned and formatted first, if it is not
already)
then shut the machine down and disconnect all HD's except the laptop drive.
now boot with a win98 floppy and enter the command sys C:

if you see the message "system transferred" you should be all set

now you can reassemble the desktop machine and put the small HD back in the
laptop
and it should bootup to the C: prompt


now enter this: cd win98
now type : setup and the installation should commence