how load win 98 on old laptop?

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succcess at last! It's up and running.
Thanks for all the suggestings, and ideas.
From haveing no clue what to do next, you guys gave me options galore.
Anyway, the one that worked was Shep's idea about the memory.
I pulled it and was going to clean the pins, but guess what? There are no
pins. It's built the other way around, the memory moduel, 16 megs I might
add, has a double series of holes in it, and the pins are on the computer.
I blow into the holes with compressed air, and reinstalled.

Then it was the same old thing, but when I went into cmos and set the time
and date (which only goes up to 1999) and then booted warm, it saw the cdrom
and the hard drive and loaded win98. It has word 2000 on it, and it ran
perfectly.

I can't thank all you guys for taking the time to help me with this, and
especially for not getting frustrated with my stupid questions.

Avery

ps: next step is the screwdrive and go searching for the cmos battery.

oh yeah, by the way, I never mentioned that it runs on a
intel pentium 120 cpu.
 
Thanks for telling the solution, that is just as important as the help.

~ Avery Anderson~ said:
succcess at last! It's up and running.
Thanks for all the suggestings, and ideas.
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.......... here is whear I'm loosing you. The problem is I can only get to
the A drive, via a win98 boot disk. Once there I can access the C drive.
If I boot with the cdrom drive in the comuter, it doesn't boot at all. So,
what does it mean to "just run the installer from the CD? To show you how
stupid I really am, "what's an installer?" the code that loads the operating
system? Sorry I'm being so dense here.


.....but I can't get here if I can't "run the installer frm the CD." right?
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You format the C-drive fromthe floppy, with the system, so the HDD can
boot alone, where it can boot with the CD drivers.
 
succcess at last! It's up and running.
Thanks for all the suggestings, and ideas.
From haveing no clue what to do next, you guys gave me options galore.
Anyway, the one that worked was Shep's idea about the memory.
I pulled it and was going to clean the pins, but guess what? There are no
pins. It's built the other way around, the memory moduel, 16 megs I might
add, has a double series of holes in it, and the pins are on the computer.
I blow into the holes with compressed air, and reinstalled.

Then it was the same old thing, but when I went into cmos and set the time
and date (which only goes up to 1999) and then booted warm, it saw the cdrom
and the hard drive and loaded win98. It has word 2000 on it, and it ran
perfectly.

I can't thank all you guys for taking the time to help me with this, and
especially for not getting frustrated with my stupid questions.

Avery

ps: next step is the screwdrive and go searching for the cmos battery.

oh yeah, by the way, I never mentioned that it runs on a
intel pentium 120 cpu.
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Glad you got it fixed :)



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