LAPTOP With No CDrom how do I load windows,HELP

[gil11542]

Hey I have a laptop and dont know much about how to load windows without a CDROM.I wnt to put win98 on it but have no way to load,I have a USB external CDrom but will only work once windows is instaaled so I cant use it,Is there anyway to use one of my other computers and connect the lappy up and load WIN 98 from another machines CDrom?LMK if you know what I should do Im kinda puzzled.🙂
Thanks Charlie

 

[HansXP]

Copy the entire contents of the 98 CD-ROM to a folder on your computer, say, C:\W98
Then boot to DOS with a floppy, and run C:\W98\SETUP.EXE

 

[gil11542]

How do I copy it to the computer without a cdrom

 

[HansXP]

Well do you have Windows loaded on it now? If so, you can use that installation. If not, do you have a NIC with DOS support?

 

[watdahel]

Connect your laptop to a computer that has a CDrom drive. I assume you know how to connect to networks. Make sure the laptop has an OS. Once everything is set and you turned the CDrom drive sharing on the computer, access the shared CDrom drive with the labtop. You can simply do an upgrade if your laptop has win95.

 

[gil11542]

Do I need a 98 upgrade disk or will a 98 full edition work to update also

I have a nic for the lappy and I can network it to my home network

 

[pulpp]

you can also do a direct cable connection with parallel cable to another computer to copy the contents of win CD to the laptop HD

 

[dcdomain]

What I did, probably the most time consuming, was to grab another laptop with cd-rom and floppy installed, and swap the harddrives so I could copy the contents of the cd on to the harddisk, then swap them back. I suggest partitioning your drive so you'll always have a copy of the cd on your laptop to install from. I'm not sure for win98, but in win2k, you can just copy the i386 folder.