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How can I install an operating system? Steve 01-19-2007
Posted by Steve on January 19, 2007, 7:59 pm
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 My brain hurts even thinking about this.
How can I install windows 98SE on an old laptop that doesn't have a CD
drive?
I have 98SE on CD and a USB CD drive
It has a USB port but it won't work without an OS loaded.
I could use floppies but that would mean paying loads of cash, probably
over =A325, if I could even find 98 on floppy for sale anywhere.
Would a PCMCIA CD drive work if it had a floppy disk with the install
drivers?
Bear in mind there is nothing at all on the hard disk.
Cheers,
Steve


Posted by paulmd@efn.org on January 19, 2007, 10:30 pm
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Steve wrote:
> My brain hurts even thinking about this.
> How can I install windows 98SE on an old laptop that doesn't have a CD
> drive?
> I have 98SE on CD and a USB CD drive
> It has a USB port but it won't work without an OS loaded.
> I could use floppies but that would mean paying loads of cash, probably
> over =A325, if I could even find 98 on floppy for sale anywhere.
> Would a PCMCIA CD drive work if it had a floppy disk with the install
> drivers?

Yes. I've done that. There are pcmcia drives you can get, that come
with a bootable floppy.

There are other approaches involving a desktop pc and and a notebook
drive adapter.

You can copy all the install files to the hard drive, and the run the
setup program.


> Bear in mind there is nothing at all on the hard disk.
> Cheers,
> Steve


Posted by Steve on January 19, 2007, 11:19 pm
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There are other approaches involving a desktop pc and and a notebook
drive adapter.>
You can copy all the install files to the hard drive, and the run the
setup program.

Ahhhh. That rings a bell somewhere at the back.
So if I take the laptop hard drive out of the laptop and use a laptop
HD to standard PC HD converter to install the laptop hard disk in a
standard desktop PC as a slave, I can then use the PCs CD drive to copy
files from the 98SE CD to the laptop hard drive. Then unplug it all and
re-insert the laptop hard drive in the laptop.
This would give me all the files from the Win98SE Cd on the laptop but
what happens then?
Sorry to sound thick but I ain't all that switched on about computers.
Thanks for your help
Steve


Posted by paulmd@efn.org on January 19, 2007, 11:47 pm
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Steve wrote:
> There are other approaches involving a desktop pc and and a notebook
> drive adapter.>
> You can copy all the install files to the hard drive, and the run the
> setup program.
>
> Ahhhh. That rings a bell somewhere at the back.
> So if I take the laptop hard drive out of the laptop and use a laptop
> HD to standard PC HD converter to install the laptop hard disk in a
> standard desktop PC as a slave, I can then use the PCs CD drive to copy
> files from the 98SE CD to the laptop hard drive. Then unplug it all and
> re-insert the laptop hard drive in the laptop.
> This would give me all the files from the Win98SE Cd on the laptop but
> what happens then?

There are 2 different ways to start the installation.

One is setup.exe, and the other is oemsetup.exe, that is located in a
subdirectory. I like the oemsetup.exe if it have to start an install
the hard way.

You will need a bootable floppy disk to get you the ability to navigate
in dos, and start the program. If you have the one that came with the
cd, use it. and chose "start the computer with no cd rom support". You
will get a dos prompt, and then navigate to drive C.



You can make the 98 boot floppy, here.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm




> Sorry to sound thick but I ain't all that switched on about computers.
> Thanks for your help
> Steve


Posted by Steve on January 20, 2007, 12:34 am
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>
> One is setup.exe, and the other is oemsetup.exe, that is located in a
> subdirectory. I like the oemsetup.exe if it have to start an install
> the hard way.
>
> You will need a bootable floppy disk to get you the ability to navigate
> in dos, and start the program. If you have the one that came with the
> cd, use it. and chose "start the computer with no cd rom support". You
> will get a dos prompt, and then navigate to drive C.


Thanks for the help.
I may be able to manage that.
Cheers,
Steve


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