Jo22 wrote:Yup, good idea. Just make sure the IDE-USB adapter is compatible with the HDD.
I once tried such a converter device with a fixed […]
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Jade Falcon wrote:oeuvre wrote:Another solution is to use an IDE to USB adapter to copy the CDROM's WIN98 directory to your C: drive and then install from there by booting off a floppy. No CD drive required for that.
This. I ran into odd problems with 9x and this tends to fix the problem, its a band aid fix. But who cares once 9x is installed.
Yup, good idea. Just make sure the IDE-USB adapter is compatible with the HDD.
I once tried such a converter device with a fixed disk that complied to the original IDE specs.
It was a ~40MB drive and it wasn't recognized by the adapter, but worked perfectly fine in a 586 Pentium machine with on-board IDE.
Running the W98 installer off the hard drive is loads faster too. As an additional embellishment make a data drive, say D:, and copy the W98 install CD there. That way you can easily repeat the installation operation if needed.
In the reinstall scenario boot off floppy, reformat C, then navigate to D and run the W98 installer from from there. With the hard drive partitioned into 2 drives you have the added benefit of a dedicated OS drive C:, and a dedicated data/games drives D:. IIR W98 only needs a few hundred MB's if only OS and critical apps go in C. Good hunting...