Re: how do I load win98 on HD??


"jaster" <jaster@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:31:51 -0600, David Maynard thoughtfully wrote:
>
>> jaster wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm sure he has but it ain't that simple and PnP won't even work at ALL
>> if
>> the system has the wrong motherboard configuration for the ISA and PCI
>> controllers because it won't even know there ARE any ISA or PCI slots.
>>
>> Now, hopefully it would find the 'new' ISA and PCI controllers but it
>> doesn't always because the rest of the motherboard configuration is
>> screwed up too.
>>
>> And then there's the aspect that if it won't install on the target system
>> what in god's name makes you think it would run on it, and a screwed up
>> alien configuration at that?
>
>
> Yeap I read a lot of complaints about my solution. Yet the OP wants to
> install W98 on his bro's HD using the OP's PC. And the OP did just that
> after he got another version of the W98 CD.
>
> So which drivers and bios settings is on his bro's HD ?

He didn't load it on his machine,,,a new 98 disk used on his brothers
machine

>
> I've used my solution a number of times when I was moving to ever larger
> HDs. Take the HD out of one PC and put in another without major
> castrophes. Yes I may have needed to redo a driver but nothing major.
>
>


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