upgrading from 95 to 98 without a cdrom

[bigfep1]

I have a toshiba tecra 550cdt. I am trying to upgrade from win 95 to win 98, but because win 95 has limited usb support my external cdrom wont load. I need to find another way to upgrade. any ideas would be awsome. thanks

lee

 

[beerhunter2]

Are you connected to a network? Does your external CDROM come with a parallel port connection or only USB?

 

[bigfep1]

there is no parallel port or nic.

 

[beerhunter2]

If you are really lucky, maybe your Win98 boot up disk will pick up the external USB CDROM drive, and then you can install from the CD. The only other method I know of that would work is installing Win98 via diskettes (if yuo can find them anywhere). Maybe someone else has an idea.

 

[edfair]

If you can find the resources, you could put the upgrade stuff on 2 100mb zip disks through a parallel port zip drive , then dump it onto the hard drive the same way.
The other alternative is to get a 2" to 3" adapter kit and put the hard drive on a desktop with a CD and transfer the install stuff over that path. Then there is the laplink method. Ed Fair
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