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When you're done, write protect the floppy by sliding the little plastic switch so you can see two holes and reboot your 'puter with the new boot disk in the floppy drive. So far I have yet to find a 'puter that this boot disk hasn't worked on! And no, I don't mean older'puters! Insert a NEW floppy disk into your floppy drive. ARCHIVED: In Windows 95, 98, or Me, how do I make a startup (system recovery) disk? Sign in anonymously Don't add me to the active users list.If these methods don't work for you then you'll need to follow the methods from the link listed above. Remember me This is not recommended for shared computers. Need an account? Register now! I've forgotten my password. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.Ĭlick here to Register a free account now! Please log in to reply. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in.

#WIN 98 STARTUP DISK HOW TO#

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Register a free account to unlock additional features at BleepingComputer. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Installing Windows 98 on a USB driveĬommunity Forum Software by IP. Bought an old machine and want to play my old games. Hi all does anyone know where I can download a win98se bootable iso.

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Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. If you don't want to reboot and use the boot disk's menu each time, try commands such as net logoff and net use. Then, just log in using a random user name and password. Also, make sure to turn off 'Password protected sharing' in your Windows networking settings. Unfortunately I couldn't get my main Windows user's credentials to work an alternative is to give 'Everyone' read/write access in the shared folder's settings. The shared folder you entered during the setup phase will be bound to the I:\ drive letter. When prompted for a user name, make sure to use quotes if your user name includes a space. The network boot disk will ask you for a domain to join just enter whatever if you're using a workgroup-based network. At this point my machine kept crashing the cause was using a too-high-density SDRAM stick you've been warned. Once you've got everything going far enough that the target machine gets a DHCP address and manages to start PXELinux, you'll be presented with a blue menu.

Create a shared folder with the Windows 98 setup files.

This prevented it from successfully PXE booting. installed on the host) IP address, probably due to some sort of DHCP forwarding mechanism.

When trying to do all this using a VMware client, it kept listing the virtual VMware adapter's (i.e.

If your PXE boot prompt lists a DHCP server, make sure it's using your server machine's IP address.

Disable all network adapters other than your main ethernet connection VMware network adapters kept somehow preventing Tftpd32 from binding to my main network card.

Disable your network's main DHCP server (i.e.

c32 files are part of the SysLinux distribution and can be found in (deep) within its zip file. Here's how I saved/unzipped all that stuff on my host machine (running Windows 8.1):

A Windows 98 iso image or cd extract the files within to a shared folder.

To add support for another network card, open the file in WinImage and consult the text in 'autoexec.bat'.

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I've also added a generic NDIS network driver to this image that should work with all network cards as long as PXELinux is used with the keeppxe option (see my linked config file) however this did not work for me. I used this one, which happily supported the Compaq network card my machine uses. Difficult to find, and many require you to build them using tools that don't work on modern Windows versions.

A network boot disk image that supports your network card.

Couldn't get it to work with Intel Pro/100 cards.

A network card that will sucesfully PXE boot, which is a crapshoot.

Put this in a pxelinux.cfg subdirectory of wherever you put PXELinux.

This contains information on the menu structure and floppy images to use.

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Requirements - my zipped archive of these is here Unfortunately all of this is a huge crapshoot that requires lots of old janky components to work together. Next, it's just a matter of booting a Windows 98 boot disk and starting the installer.

#WIN 98 STARTUP DISK INSTALL#

The idea is to first PXE boot a network bootdisk from another machine, which allows copying the Windows install cd files to the target machine's hard drive. Here's how I installed Windows 98 on an old machine by without using any physical boot floppies/CDs.