Win 98 install from floppy

Follow up at end

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:25:28 -0500, Bill Watt
wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:40:02 -0800, IKE
wrote:

I have a laptop that I want to partition with partition-magic. I want to
install Win 98 on the new partition. The problem is, the laptop has a usb
cd-rom that I can't seem to get to work with any kind of boot disk. Can my
Win 98 cd-rom be broken into pieces(not literally) and put onto floppy and
booted from the floppys??

thanks in advance

IKE,

The Win 98 folder on the CD is about 125 MB. It would take a huge
number of floppy's.

Not sure if Windows is working on the Laptop and you want to format
then install Windows from DOS. If it is not then disregard the rest
of this.

There are USB drivers at www.bootdisk.com for floppies

If Windows is working on the Laptop you can try Direct Cable
Connection and transfer the Win98 folder on the CD to the Laptop's
HD. Then run Setup from the HD. You first copy the folder to your PC
then transfer it via DCC.

I did this with a Laptop that had a bad CDrom. With PM create a 2 MB
partition on the Laptop then copy the Win98 folder to the 2MB
partition and keep it there. Any time Windows needs something from
the CD it will go there instead. You can also transfer programs from
CD's this way, then install them.

First copy the Win98 folder on the CD to the PC.
Then setup DCC on both machines.
Then transfer the Win 98 folder over to the Laptop with DCC.
Then create the 2MB partition with PM.
Then copy the Win98 folder to the 2MB partition
Then run Setup from the Win98 folder on the 2MB partition.
Then delete the other Win98 folder if you need the room

You won't need the CD again.

How to Setup Direct Cable Connection.
http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/directcc.html

Make that a 200MB partition instead of a 2MB. :-(

With PM create a 200 MB partition on the Laptop then copy the Win98
folder on the CD to the 200 MB partition and keep it there.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

If it's possible to boot to a CD drive on the USB then it will be enabled
through an option in BIOS setup, not by booting from floppy.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"IKE" wrote in message
...
OK Here's the deal.
I have Win XP Pro with one partition with NTFS. I am able to create a
second partition with FAT. I want to create a duel boot system. All of
this
can be done with Partition Magic. The problem is, when I create the new
partition and then boot to it, nothing happens because it doesn't have an
OS
yet. I want to put Win 98 on the new partition but can't because my
cd-rom
is USB and I havn't been able to find/create a boot disk that can see my
USB
cd-rom.
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