Dobbins etc wrote:

I gave up on the idea because no matter what I did, I just couldn't get
'98 to install, so I ordered one of these:

Hitachi-Travelstar-60-GB-IDE-Hard-Drive

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

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?

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.