How to install Windows 98SE w/o floppy and w/o cd-rom?

[Blitze105]

no offense but no we wont. we already got flash drives they will take apart floppies! and besides the stupid disks always corrupt my data. no matter where i put them or store them seems like its always a gamble to put stuff on them for me

edit.. if i find an extra floppy drive i can prolly mail you it if you like, i doubt it but it is up to you

 

[SkyHi]

First, you do NOT need a floppy drive.

LegendBreath: Why can't you boot from the CD? Have you checked BIOS to see if it is enabling boot from CD? I'd check that ASAP as I've had same problem, but I fixed it by setting BIOS to boot from CD there.

-SkyHi

 

[Blitze105]

yes ski but from what i went through with my 95 i couldn't.
simply i tried but it loaded the disk then loaded windows 95. i dont know, however, about 98 but maybe you dont then. I would suggest trying with a disk

 

[htcs]

Either a Floppy drive or a CD ROM.

Some versions of Win98 were actually bootable CD's. If your BIOS will let u boot from a CDROM... i suggest trying that. Otherwise, use a program like nero to take an image from a windows 98 floppy and emulate it onto a CD (Bootable CD). From there you can do what ever - a startupdisk and windows 98 on one CD! Very convenient!

 

[LegendBreath]

First, you do NOT need a floppy drive.

LegendBreath: Why can't you boot from the CD? Have you checked BIOS to see if it is enabling boot from CD? I'd check that ASAP as I've had same problem, but I fixed it by setting BIOS to boot from CD there.

-SkyHi

To old...

 

[ekÆsine]

If it won't boot from a CD you can borrow a floppy drive from another computer. You either need the win98 startup disk which will load generic cd-rom drivers so you can install win98 from the CD or you can take a disk image from any win98 computer and clone it to your old computer by slaving a second hard disk. Ghost is a good disk cloning program to try. you would use a partition clone to an image file than restore that image to your old computer.

 

[SkyHi]

To old to what? BIOS?

 

[LegendBreath]

To old to what? BIOS?

It's only a Socket 7 AT motherboard...

 

[Blitze105]

id agree with the post bout putting a floppy drive from another computer in.. that could do it. if not u can buy one cheap...