Windows 98 install without a disk?

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brucedeluxe169

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Hey guys

I want to install Windows 98 on my computer, but I don't have a floppy drive installed on it to boot from b4 running setup. Does anyone know how I can install Win 98 without a boot disk?

I have an iPod, keychain flash disc, and dvd burner

anyone know how i can boot from any of those ??

thanksss
 
At boot up go into the bios, and set boot option to Optical drive (in some cases it will show your DVDRW, in other cases it will show CD, and yet other cases it simply shows the 'windows' drive letter C: being the 1st HDD, and D: E: F: etc following it...if you only have one IDE drive then it would be D: if you have two then it would be E:)

Getting to bios is usually one of three ways, hitting DEL key, Hitting F10 key, or hitting CRTL/ALT (although I've only found 1 board that was that way and it was an old 486DX board...) most are DEL or F10... do this after it finds the memory while finding the disk drives, or while 'splash' screen is showing. (I tend to set the bios to not show that crap, in order to see that all of the memory/hdd/cdrw's are found)
 
ummm, my copy of windows 98 doesnt have a boot image... so trying to make the computer boot from the CD isnt gonna work.... any way i can boot off a USB flash disk or the ipod?
 
do you have a working computer with a cd burner? if so make a bootable cd you can get the files from bootdisk.com


and it sounds like you have a bootleg windows if its not bootable ;)
 
lol, i've had bootleg windows 98's that booted....

i just lost the CDs, so i asked a friend to beam over an image to me real quick and this isn't booting

once i boot from a CD, can i swap out the boot CD and install 98 from the same drive???
 
Most likely, yes, as long as you are booting to a dos environment...
On my win98 legacy gaming box, I have a 1gig partiton that I leave a copy of win98se and the drivers and a few utilities on.. Makes install alot faster, and, if you install from it at that location, you never get the ever constantly annoying "Place the Win98 cd in drive and press OK" message.. I absolutley hate switching the damn cd in and out of the drive during driver and app installs and driver updates... When it comes time to re-install, which unfortunately is often, I just pop a win98 boot disk in and go..
 
im installing it for dual boot with windows XP for legacy gaming also

i think its retarded that there isn't a better way to run DOS and windows 98 games in Windows XP... hell, i'm sure MS could release utitilities that fully emulated the old windows and DOS environments perrfectly in XP....
 
and for the record, even tho im installing 98 with an ISO my friend beamed over to me, i've bought it (twice)

win XP... i use the same CD that came with my dell laptop on my desktop, hehe... it works, and the CD key is valid... so why not

=)
 
brucedeluxe169 said:
lol, i've had bootleg windows 98's that booted....

i just lost the CDs, so i asked a friend to beam over an image to me real quick and this isn't booting

once i boot from a CD, can i swap out the boot CD and install 98 from the same drive???
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yes or you can just put the win98 files onto your boot cd and you have a fully functional bootable windows cd ;)
 
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