760El and win98

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john518 · #1 Post by **john518** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:23 pm

I am trying to download win98se on a 760EL 9547-U4g with 48mb ram,internal cd-rom and external FDD
I downloaded sbmist.exe and cwsdpmi.exe. But the only problem is when I open the sys menu to set the cd-rom I/O ports (1FO,3F6) and and then look for "Rescan all Drives (Ctrl-I) that is not in the window and CtrlI-I does nothing.
Before anybody says use another computer and d/l win98 and then put back into the laptop....did it and it did not work.
Do I have to flash the bios? That is one thing that I do not know how to do.
How do you download win98 to the HRDV?

Bookworm · #2 Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:25 am

Exactly what are you trying to do? If you want to install Windows 98, you will have to install it from the CD. Do you have a floppy drive?

john518 · #3 Post by **john518** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:14 pm

1. The cd-rom is not a boot device on this computer.
2.on reading past post it seems that the only way to work around this problem is to use the sbmist program (smart boot manger.) I cad get the computer to run the program but I can not get the cd-rom loaded.

PS the computer has an internal cd-rom (teac 4x) and an external FDD
(IBM )

Bookworm · #4 Post by **Bookworm** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:15 pm

Ok, on another computer (I hate this kind of answer; what if you don't *have* another computer?) make a Windows 98 startup disk. Boot your ThinkPad from this floppy. You don't have to have anything on the hard drive. It will start up in what looks like MS-DOS. Then, from the command line, start the setup program on the CD.

john518 · #5 Post by **john518** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:55 am

the win98se boot disk do not see the cd-rom.
sbmist has? the way to load the cd-rom. The problem is that the set for the cd-rom does not show up after the change is made.

Bookworm · #6 Post by **Bookworm** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:42 am

I forgot something. You will need to download the CD-ROM drivers for dos from the IBM/Lenovo support site. I don't have the link, but I found it quickly by googling. With the standard drivers from the MS CD, I had the same problem, but with IBM's drivers, it worked.

john518 · #7 Post by **john518** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:04 pm

If you are talking about CDTPGDOS.EXE after loading it I get a CDR103: CDROM not High Sierra or ISO-9660 format reading from drive statement. I may have to back to square 1 and start over

john518 · #8 Post by **john518** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:43 pm

Found the workaround. Need an older desktop., 2.5 t0 3.5 hrdv adp and a lot of patience. On start up down load the cab files to a directory on target Hdrv. Run the installation. Place the Hrdv into the laptop and start looking for the oddball drivers. I still can not find the cd-rom drivers yet. Win NT 4.0, win95b and win98se all working.

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