On 01/21/2017 10:28 AM, 98 Guy wrote:

Ah - you were trying to install win-98 on the thumb drive, not *from*
the thumb drive.


Correct.

This is an old Toshiba Satellite with IDE and 64 MB RAM.

I was thinking you were trying to install win-98 from the thumb drive
onto the Toshiba's internal hard drive.

So my next question is - what OS is currently on the Toshiba's internal
hard drive?


Right now, it has Win Me.


Or does it even have a (working?) internal hard drive?

Wow - old stock 2.5" IDE hard drives are cheap. Cheaper than a thumb
drive of comparable size. I might order a few myself.

That seemed like a good price, so I went for it. If it doesn't last,
then it's not a great loss.