need help installing win98 on a laptop

[stanger]

i need a little help with some info installing win98 on a laptop. the laptop has swappable cdrom/floppy drives. do i do a format c:/s with out cdrom support then maybe switch the flopy to the cdrom and choose cdrom support and type "setup" at the prompt, or am i totally wrong ?........ btw its a IBM 760xl with 64mb memory and 2.1 harddrive and 166 processor

thanks any help will be greatly appreciated
stanger

 

[jschuk]

I would format the drive and then copy the entire contents of a W'98 disk (CD-Rom support) to the HDD. Make sure you copy the hidden files as well. Then let the unit boot to the HDD and go to the CD-Rom to run setup. Or you could make a bootable W'98 CD with another machine and boot to the CD if the laptop allows it.

 

[bacillus]

do you know if your copy of win98 is bootable?
if it is & the generic drivers on the cd can see your cd drive then you can forget about using the floppy!

 

[stanger]

yeah i think it is bootable its the original win98 se

stanger

 

[dbwillis]

I did this on an old Compaq lappy I had, there was no CD drive, so I copied the win98 folder onto the C drive from in windows 95, then booted with a floppy and deleted all the folders/files I could on the C drive, renamed any I couldnt delete to "AAAAA", then ran the install out of the win98 folder.
Once into Windows 98, I deleted the old folders called AAAAA and was fine.
Boot off the CD if you can, might make it easier

 

[littlezipp]

Best bet is to go into your bios and tell it to boot first to the cd drive. You can do your fdisk and format from that, and then load in Windows.