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  1. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    Thanks! Yea, the webpage was something I've been playing with... geez Microsoft makes making webpages too easy... *grumble grumble* back in the day when I used to write html with notepad... *grumble grumble* Lucid
  2. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    That's ok-- it's good to flush this out for other people who are looking for an answer to this problem. When booting from the Windows 98 OEM CD, you are given the option to hit any key to boot from a CD-Rom (the exact text differs as a function of your individual bios). The next option is a...
  3. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    <quote>not sure if i'm following along completely, but seems that if you can Partition/Format and get the whole \win98 directory onto the Lappy HDD, "and" you can get to a Command Prompt, then you can run Setup</quote> Yes, partitioning is done with fdisk and formatting is done with the...
  4. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    There are two solutions I’ve found for this problem. One is to create a partition on a desktop PC, install Windows 98, then create an image with Symantec’s Ghost (Version 8) 2003. This only works if the drive is a primary dos drive and bootable in it’s own right! The latest version of Ghost...
  5. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    I have thought of that, though I don't readilly have the 40 to 44 pin adapter. I was thinking that I was spending way too much time on this problem so a few days ago I purchased the adapter. It should be here next week; we'll see how it goes. Joel
  6. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    You are correct in saying that I can get a command prompt. In this situation, the command prompt is K:, the next available drive letter. Unfortunately, you cannot use the format command plus the /s tag to make it a system bootable disk. It doesn't like to do this at all. edfair-- Ideally...
  7. LucidOndine

    Installing OS over firewire

    So here is my situation. A friend of mine had a laptop that decided to bite the dust, so, she gave it to me to fix. I replaced the harddrive, but realized that there was absolutely no way to boot it. There was only an external CD-ROM drive and it goes through a PCMIA backpack device that...

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