Friday, June 30, 2023 at 4:36 PM
I just finished installing Windows 98 SE (French) on my old ThinkPad R61i laptop. My parents bought me this laptop in 2008. Steps I took : - Found an old Windows 98 startup disk in my floppies collection. - Booted it with my USB floppy drive emulator (amazed that my BIOS recognized it) - Used fdisk to put a single partition on the drive. - Used "format c:" to format the drive (this took 3-4 hours for a 420 GB drive). - Used "fdisk /mbr" (on c:) to erase the old Debian booting screen from the hard drive. - I might have rebooted to the floppy (I can't remember) - Installed Windows 98 SE with an old CD my uncle made (which was not bootable). - Did "e:" and "install" at the DOS prompt to start the installation. - At the first reboot, I got an error because my laptop had too much memory. - I opened my laptop to remove the 3 GB RAM card, leaving one 1 GB card. - Finished installing Windows 98. I am now in the process of finding the necessary drivers. So far, I have installed my USB-FDD driver with a CD and installed my USB key driver with a floppy.