Windows 98 Install

[wolfman]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to rip the Windows 98SE cd to floppy disks.  I am running into some trouble on an old laptop (Thinkpad 560Z).  It can boot off of the floppy disk but it is unable to install the drivers from the setup disk for the cdrom.  The cdrom connects throght the pcmcia slot and is not recognized.  If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate the assistance.

[Space Between]

Dude that's hardcore.  That is like 300 floppies or something close....no clue on how to do that...(insanity).

[classified]

http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':huh:\' />  Your best bet at this stage is to try and get one of those parallel port CD-ROM drives and connect it up.
You may need to boot of a stiffy and then load the drivers for the CD-ROM drive.

Copy the \WIN98 directory to the laptops hard drive and then run setup from the hard drive.

Good luck.. http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[wolfman]

thanks

[gosh]

win98 first edition shipped on cd's and floppies, it was only like 40 floppies i think.  win98se and winme dont ship on floppies.

-gosh

[The_Flames]

[quote name=\'gosh\' date=\'May 17 2003, 02:23 AM\']win98 first edition shipped on cd's and floppies, it was only like 40 floppies i think.  win98se and winme dont ship on floppies.

-gosh[/quote]
You will find your getting it mistaken with win 95

the first reliece of 95 was floppy based, all after was cd based, win 98 never was floppy based

[geckopj]

Actually win98 was available on floppies. According to the windows 98 manual it said so under requirements :

- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive (if you perfer to use floppy disks instead of a CD, the windows 98 box contains a coupon for obtaining Windows 98 on 3.5-ince, high-density disks. The CD-ROM version contains items not included on the 3.5-inch disks)

[Space Between]

ok well this pretty much insure's it's not available on floppies

\"if you perfer to use floppy disks instead of a CD, the windows 98 box contains a coupon for obtaining Windows 98 on 3.5-ince\"

who in there right mind would of preffered floppies over a cd...by this time cdroms where already far too
common. If somebody actually got the floppy version, well this would be possible with win customers, but if
they did get it...the floppies were probably lost by now, not working, or something.  Not too mention you
would have to go out of your way to send in the coupon, it would be WAY easier to just get a cdrom.

Remember, the orginal Win98 setup required you to use a floppy to install, but just too boot. If your laptop
boots floppies your hooked with just copying from dos...or you should be unless your laptop is WAY smacked
up.

I have NEVER seen ANYTHING on installing win98 from floppies...never ever. Ive never searched for it but
ive seen a ton of stuff on win98 installs and never seen this.  

About it being on 40 floppies...i have NO idea how...that would be like the rip version maybe....or you would
go with a just dos and load a aspi manager...copy the files over with dos. Or you could do that parrallel
way but that is far more complicated than it needs to be.

[classified]

Another option would be to take out the hard drive and take it to a pc
shop and see if they could copy the 98 cab files onto the hard drive for you.

They could use a laptop hard drive adapator to standard IDE connector
and plug it into a desktop pc ad do the transfer.