Mine is similar except
i HAVE BOTH A CD DRIVE and A FLOPPY DRIVE but can only have one installed at the same time.
I fourtunatily got the bios unlocked in my 900b, but with no optical drives for it, I decided to remove the HDD and install it in my old armada 7400 to format w2k pro off the HDD and install win 98se on it, the problem, I cant have floppy AND cd at same time, so this is what I have done so far. so how do I go about floppy boot, then swap to cd drive install ???
Fdisk, removed all partitions, and then set a new primary partition of max size
reboot
format using a:> format c:/s to install sys files
reboot
a:> setup , and says of course that it is invalid cause it does not locate the cd
I read a page on how to do this and tried it, it said to copy a list of files to the HDD using MS-DOS after the format c:/s and I tried this, but my OEM floppy disk that came with my win98se did not have some of these files on it, said cannot locate. this is the page that told me what to do. the files I have bolded are the ones I cannot locate o my oem floppy to copy, and the link he stated to get the win98se.exe is invalid now.....any help with this issue ?
1)please visit ht tp: //dos.li5. org/[/url] and download win98.exe.
2)Run win98.exe and follow the instructions to make a bootable floppy
disk.
3)boot the laptop from the floppy disk. You should end up at a DOS
prompt that looks like:
a:\>
4)type in c: and press enter.
5)if you get "invalid drive specification" then se the section at the
end of this answer.
6) if you get a C: prompt, type in DIR and press enter. If you get
"file not found" then see the end of the message. If you get any sort
of listing, even if it is an empty directory with 2 sib directories (.
and ..) then proceed to step 7.
7)type in A: and press enter.
8)type in sys C: and press enter
9)when that is complete, type in the following commands and press
enter after each one.
copy autoexec.bat c:
copy cd*.sys c:
copy config.sys c:
copy mscdex.exe c:
copy mtmcdai.sys c:
10)shut down the computer, and replace the floppy drive with the cdrom
drive. reboot, and when you end up at a C:\> prompt, you should be
able to access the cdrom drive. Usually the drivers we loaded will
make it the R: drive, but you should get a message during boot up
telling you what drive letter it is.
11)type in R: and press enter (replace R: with the proper letter if
you got a different letter for your cdrom drive)
12)type in setup and press enter.
