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Followup: How will you install 98?
Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 12:26 pm
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Posted by DNA (551 messages posted)

One more thing: How will you install Windows 98 on the formatted drive, seeing how the laptop has no floppy and standard Windows 98 CD's are not "bootable"?

You have different options on how to do this, search this forum or Google.

One good option is to remove the hard drive, install it in a desktop (with a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter), copy the Win98 folder from the 98 CD to the hard drive, and use the SYS command to make the hard drive bootable. Then, reinstall the HD to the laptop and go to C:\Win98 and type setup.

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Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home

Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro

IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2

Windows 2000 Server in the basement

Written in response to:
Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 9:29 am)

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Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 9:29 am)

Followup: How will you install 98? (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:26 pm)

One argument for Win2K (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:39 pm)

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