yrz2001 wrote on 2025-06-26, 03:24:

theelf wrote on 2025-06-25, 05:59:

Floppy are relics from the past! jeje […]
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yrz2001 wrote on 2025-06-25, 01:39:

Hello, at the beginning of this year, I bought an IBM Aptiva 2168 S65 in Japan. To install my new Voodoo graphics card, I need to reinstall the operating system, but I know nothing about old computer hardware and have no idea how to install Windows 98 on a CF card.When installing from a CD, do I need a floppy disk as a boot disk, or is there another method?

Floppy are relics from the past! jeje

update and use some new technology, read the CF card in your PC using a USB reader, and format with HPUSBDisk.exe

The attachment HPUSBDisk.zip is no longer available

Download a win98 bootdisk, just decompress in a folder, and in HPUSBDisk select the option to create a booteable disk, and select the folder with the bootdisk, voila, you have a booteable CF disk

The copy win98 install folder, and install using setup, thats all

I followed your method to create a bootable CF card, but now the computer looks like this when starting from the hard drive.
It first displays the characters 'I990301', then shows a floppy disk insertion animation, just like this.

Of course first you need to know your bios limits, try a smaller 2Gb CF card. Anyways i dont think 4GB will be your bios limit for sure is 8GB in this motherboard

Mi IBM PS/1 have a 512mb limit (ibm allways was very conservative) but i have a 40GB HDD using ontrack. What i did is format the 40GB HDD in HP tool, with win98 boot files, and with a floppy boot and installed ontrack 9.06 on mbr. Maybe you will need to do same to use all 8GB+ CF card on this board too

Now I've created a bootable floppy disk and am trying to boot from it to install the system from CD.

I'm currently partitioning the CF card to ensure each partition is under 2GB, but now in DOS I can't access the other partitions - only the C: drive is visible.

Does anyone know what I should do? This problem has been bothering me for ages

I'd guess they're not formatted.
Install Windows, get to a gui and see what one of the many partitioning tools says

myne wrote on 2025-06-30, 02:03:

I'd guess they're not formatted.
Install Windows, get to a gui and see what one of the many partitioning tools says

I've already partitioned and formatted them on another computer, but that's not the only issue. When I tried to boot from the floppy startup disk to install Windows 98 from CD, the system gave an error: 'No CD detected.'

If you are using a CF card you dont need a CD at all.

You just need a Windows 98 boot floppy disk a floppy drive that you can boot from and the Win98 folder from the CD. Another PC you can use to copy the Win98 folder to oa CF card.

Boot the system with the boot disk. Fdisk and format the CF card in the PC.
Remove the CF card and copy the Win98 folder into the root of the CF card and put it back into the IBM PC.
Boot the PC with the boot floppy and navigate to the Win98 folder on C:
Run setup.

If dos can see the c:, then you can cut some steps.

from floppy: format c: /s /q
Copy win98 folder via other machine.
Boot. It should get to c:\>
cd win98
setup

I tried this method, but the Windows 98 setup program displays an error: 'Windows 98 Setup cannot create files on the startup drive'."

So it boots to dos from the hdd, and you managed to copy the folder, but somehow it can't write to the drive it boots from?

myne wrote on 2025-07-01, 22:36:

So it boots to dos from the hdd, and you managed to copy the folder, but somehow it can't write to the drive it boots from?

Yes, I copied all files from the ISO image directly to the C: drive, then launched setup.exe from a DOS boot floppy – that's when this error occurred

yrz2001 wrote on 2025-07-02, 03:36:

myne wrote on 2025-07-01, 22:36:

So it boots to dos from the hdd, and you managed to copy the folder, but somehow it can't write to the drive it boots from?

Yes, I copied all files from the ISO image directly to the C: drive, then launched setup.exe from a DOS boot floppy – that's when this error occurred

I use a bootable Win98 CD, but at the point you are at I think you should be able to navigate to the folder and start setup from there. Here is a screenshot from the site that has the procedure that I use.

I said format c: /s /q.
Then boot from the hdd.

OK, since you didn't follow the instructions, try sys a: c: from the floppy. Then booting dos from hdd.

I've purchased a 2GB CF card, and the system now correctly recognizes its full capacity. I will attempt to install the OS using the previous method.