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Ruloco420 - 17 Apr 2005 04:25 GMT

Bought Compaq Armada 4220T notebook at fair. No OS installed. No cdrom to
install software from. No usb port.
Have win98 cd but can't use due to only external I have is a usb cdrom. Do
have usb pcmcia card but can't get laptop to recognize without OS.
Need to create floppy disks to install win98. Anybody got info on how to do
this or how I can get laptop to recognize the pcmcia card and load usb
drivers. Laptop does have scsi port and I have a much older scsi cd rom.
Ideas please?

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Jeff Richards - 17 Apr 2005 04:30 GMT

Connect this machine to another machine that has a CD-ROM and copy the
contents of the installation CD to a folder on the hard drive using the
CD-ROM on the other machine. The connection can use network cards and DOS
networking, or parallel or serial ports and an application like Laplink, or
any other suitable method.

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> Bought Compaq Armada 4220T notebook at fair. No OS installed. No cdrom
> to
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> drivers. Laptop does have scsi port and I have a much older scsi cd rom.
> Ideas please?

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mdp - 19 Apr 2005 04:55 GMT

If you're more into fooling with the HW than SW and have a desktop computer
you can get into that has a CDROM drive, then you could buy one of the ~$5
kits that allow a laptop drive to connect to the standard IDE port. If
you're lean on HD space, you only need the contents of the Win98 folder on
your Win98CD. Simply copy the Win98 folder in it's entirety to the laptop
drive. Put the laptop drive back into the laptop. Boot from a floppy (or
make the hard drive bootable when it's attached to your desktop). Double
click on Setup.exe in the Win98 folder.

> Connect this machine to another machine that has a CD-ROM and copy the
> contents of the installation CD to a folder on the hard drive using the
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>> drivers. Laptop does have scsi port and I have a much older scsi cd rom.
>> Ideas please?

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Ben Myers - 18 Apr 2005 14:41 GMT

Try hooking up the SCSI CD drive and see if a Windows 98 bootdisk can
access it.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Ben

> Bought Compaq Armada 4220T notebook at fair. No OS installed. No cdrom to
> install software from. No usb port.
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> drivers. Laptop does have scsi port and I have a much older scsi cd rom.
> Ideas please?

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