--- On Sun, 1/18/09, Ray Brown <kb0...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> From: Ray Brown <kb0...@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic
> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 6:03 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark" <n9...@ameritech.net>
>
> > The biggest problem I have run into so far is loading
> Win98 onto an older
> > laptop with only a floppy drive... A friend of mine
> picked up a laptop with
> > an interchangeable drive bay, and then bought a CD
> Drive for the laptop.
> > Problem is: Win95 (loaded on the machine) won't
> recognize the drive, even
> > though it IS seen and recognized by the BIOS.
>
> I don't have the Win95 driver disk but I know that
> there was a version of
> Win98, SP1, that was on floppies. I also know that you
> could have played
> with NT 4.0 on floppies. The only problem with that is that
> you have to know
> what you have, and then set it up accordingly. But that
> could've worked, too.
>
> I also have an old laptop that I need to play with (also
> a bad BIOS battery)
> that I want to program things with, too.
>
> Anyway, I hear you got a solution (bootable Win98) so
> that should take
> of ya, too. Good luck.
>
> Ray KBØSTN
>
Windows 95 came on about 23 floppies and 98 came on about 35 to 38 floppies.
