Ethernet driver without win CD ?

[whatevertomatoe]

I recently added a used hard drive to my system.
I would like to be able to boot from both drives.
I own "win98" full which is on my old drive, the new drive has "win98SE". Is there any way I could install the drivers for the Ethernet Card/Lan without having the "win98SE" disc?

 

[edfair]

You could download to a floppy from the manufacturer's website.
Once you have the SE booting add the driver(s).

I'm assuming you've started to make provisions for a boot manager.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[whatevertomatoe]

I have the drivers for the Ethernet card, as well as all the other hardware. The problem is that when I boot from drive D (win98 SE) and try to apply the drivers I am asked for the win98se CD. I tried to use My "Win98" (Pre -SE) CD but it is not accepted. I am given a message "Protma.dos not found".
Untill I can find a way around this problem. I dont see any sense in messing around with *.ini or Autoexecs, I will simply continue to boot by switching drive priorities in the Bios.
P.S. the drives are set up cable sellect.

 

[kestrel1]

You will need the correct CD to enable the ethernet drivers as Windows 98 requires files from the CD, to set it up correctly.
To dual boot you would need to use a boot manager. With Win2k/XP this is included, but not with win 98. Have a look at this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=free+boot+manager&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

As you can see there are many boot managers available for free. Try one of those. It saves messing around with your boot sequence.
One question, why do you want to run Win98 & Win98se on the same machine. There is not really much difference between them.
You could install Linux on the second drive & this has its own boot manager.

 

[whatevertomatoe]

Moving to Linux is a tempting Idea. But honestly I am not as adept as the average poster on this board. I am not a complete beginer, but I have only started playing system files and making rudimentary changes to them. I can not write any code. So jumping into Linux is a bit unerving and exciting. At least I have been lead to believe that it is not suited for the common PC user. So it would probably mean a LOT of new learning for me. Still It's an interesting idea.
I will now clean the old drive and consider "playing" with Linux for fun.

Thank you

 

[kestrel1]

Linux isn't such a hard thing to learn. The newer versions of Linux are more user friendly than they used to be. Try Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrake):

http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads

There is a live CD, so you could try Linux without installing it. If you want to install, download the three CD's.
Mandriva Linux has OpenOffice already installed & if you go through the install correctly you can choose what is installed. It is worth looking at.
I am still a bit of a new user with Linux, but I can get around most things now. However, I still use Windows for the majority of my work, I am sad to say. Maybe I will move over to Linux completely one day.

 

[G0AOZ]

Have you looked to see whether any WIN98 CAB files exist on the "WIN98SE" drive? Sometimes the installer places these on the hard drive in case the CD goes walkabout later on...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Specimen]

Search the computer for a copy of protman.dos, it's likely it already exists somewhere, then point the driver installation to that directory. Failing that, Google for a download for it. (I'm assuming you really mean protman.dos and protma.dos is just a typo.)

--- Specimen