installing windows 98

[nivekyamsi]

I have a IBM Thinkpad 560x with no operating system installed. I have used a windows 98 bootdisk to format hard drive but I need to install pcmcia drivers for my cd rom drive to continue installation.

 

[kiwiguy]

That sounds correct.

And your question is?

 

[iq454]

not sure what boot disk version you have, but if it has format on that disk, it's the wrong one. Go make a startup disk in windows, put the disk in, reboot, it should give you a chioce to start computer with cd rom support.

It will then load "diagnostics tools" to "d:", and make your cd rom "e:", so you would type this at the a:\> prompt "e:setup". Without the quotes.

If you have more than one hdd, say two, then it will be f: like this

c:\>HDD1
d:\>HDD2
e:\>diagnostics tools
f:\>CD ROM

and so on for however many hdds you have in.

 

[nivekyamsi]

I have the installation software for pcmcia cd drive but I do not know how to install it.I know nothing about DOS.

 

[iq454]

Go HERE and follow directions.