IBM Thinkpad 98 reinstall?
- Thread starter Sweetloaf
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i assume if you can boot into 98 then you can use the 98 cd. I have always booted 98 from a cd, my friend made me a cd with a 98 boot disk on it years ago. Once booted into the dos like mode i change the cds over and execute it from there.
Im sure you could find a 98 boot cd on google
Im sure you could find a 98 boot cd on google
No, Win98 CDs are not bootable 
Thats a common myth.
The quick & dirty way to do it is to find any one of the system rescue CDs that are floating around the net. Use this to format the HDD, & install DOS, then copy across the contents of the 98 CD and install from the HDD. Its also possible to build a CD that'll boot DOS, which you can then use to load the 98 installer directly from the CD, but thats a little more work. (IMHO anyway
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-Leezer-
Thats a common myth.
The quick & dirty way to do it is to find any one of the system rescue CDs that are floating around the net. Use this to format the HDD, & install DOS, then copy across the contents of the 98 CD and install from the HDD. Its also possible to build a CD that'll boot DOS, which you can then use to load the 98 installer directly from the CD, but thats a little more work. (IMHO anyway
)-Leezer-
J.T said:
Rot
Got two here, one retail & one OEM (Although, as far as I'm aware there is absolutely no difference), and both are decidably non-bootable.
I haven't tried an upgrade disk (Did they even exist?), but I'd assume there would be no difference again.
-Leezer-
Very odd 
My OEM CD came with an ancient Panrix (Anyone remember them ) machine, would have been very soon after the introduction of SE. The retail version isn't much newer than that, although I'm not sure by how much (Came out of a junk shop), but its very decidedly non-bootable.
With both of them, there was a floppy (Lost long ago!), which needed to be booted from, which AFAIK booted DOS & loaded the CD drivers, before presenting you with a command prompt, from which you were supposed to load the CD.
-Leezer-
My OEM CD came with an ancient Panrix (Anyone remember them
) machine, would have been very soon after the introduction of SE. The retail version isn't much newer than that, although I'm not sure by how much (Came out of a junk shop), but its very decidedly non-bootable.With both of them, there was a floppy (Lost long ago!), which needed to be booted from, which AFAIK booted DOS & loaded the CD drivers, before presenting you with a command prompt, from which you were supposed to load the CD.
-Leezer-
