Installing an OS without a CD Rom drive

[sanosuke 0]

Hi i have got this really old 166Mhz computer and i need to reinstall windows 98 into it, however it does not have a CD rom drive, but it does exist on a network, i am wondering how am i supposed to do a network install, any help would be useful.

 

Thanks in advanced

[DS3Circuit 0]

http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

There you will be able to get the components needed to create a network bootdisk.

 

1. Copy cabs over to a network share on your server ..... fat32 based partition with only share permissions.

 

2. Download / Customize your bootdisk so that it allows you to log into that share.

 

Other alternatives include an old parallel port zip drive and running GUEST from DOS.

 

G'Luck

[CyberGenX 0]

Create a folder on the root drive and copy over all the windows cabs. Use boot disk and install from DOS.

[sanosuke 0]

thanks for the replies now i just need to ask abit more questions.

 

1) what kind of CAB files am i supposed to copy to my network share? Ok say i want to install windows 98SE, means i copy all the CAB files from my windows 98SE CD into the network share?

 

2)what kind of tools do i put into my bootup disk so that i can access my network share?

 

Thanks again.

[CyberGenX 0]

the whole win98 folder from the CD.

[duhmez 0]

Put hard drive in working machine. Copy the win98 folder from the cd to the hard drive. Put drive back in win98 machine. Run c:\win98\setup.exe from a dos booted environment. http://drd.dyndns.org some sweet bootdisks there.

 

From what I hear, this will probably be the easiest way for you.

[sanosuke 0]

duhmez my computer is a PXI, theres no way i can put its harddisk into another pc.

 

The only way i can think of is to install from network, but i do not know what items i need for my bootdisk.