The PC im currently using is literally falling apart, hinges broken, cd drive isfalling out, battery doesnt last, the spacebar is almost broken completely, so I bought an older laptop for cheap so I can use it for school and what not.
It's a Micron laptop it doesn't have an ethernet port, and it runs windows98, and has a floppy disk drive, and theres no drivers foranything at all because i dont have the install cd for windows98
so is there a way I could put the drivers i need onto a flash drive, then install them without having the driversfor the flash drive?
Finding drivers for an old laptop can be really difficult. Not to mention if you browse the internet with Windows 98 you could be in for a lot of virus troubles considering that it no longer receives security updates from Microsoft. I'd recommend installing a linux distro. I'd say try Lubuntu first (It's a lightweight version of the most popular linux distro Ubuntu). It could happen that Lubuntu doesn't support the old hardware, but there are linux distros that do
If you need the Windows 98 files, just download an ISO of it and extract the contents of the options/win98 folder (bunch of .cab files) to c:\windows\options\win98 (you'll probably have to make the options and win98 folder)
Then whenever Windows wants to look for a driver, just point it to that directory.
There are still quite a few people that use Windows 98 as their primary OS, you can get tweaks and patches from the [url]www.msfn.org[/url] forums. One popular one is KernelEX, which allows you to run some Windows NT applications.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;38344530]Finding drivers for an old laptop can be really difficult. Not to mention if you browse the internet with Windows 98 you could be in for a lot of virus troubles considering that it no longer receives security updates from Microsoft. I'd recommend installing a linux distro. I'd say try Lubuntu first (It's a lightweight version of the most popular linux distro Ubuntu). It could happen that Lubuntu doesn't support the old hardware, but there are linux distros that do[/QUOTE]
Actually, if you don't already have an updated Windows 98 installation, you aren't going to get it updated. Windows update for Windows 9x/ME doesn't work anymore, it will just indefinitely reload a blank page over and over again.
And the problem with running Linux on that laptop is it appears he doesn't have a CD-ROM drive on the laptop. Laptops of that vintage never have support for booting to a flash drive (they didn't exist back then) and booting to an external CD-ROM drive via USB also likely isn't supported.
Even if he could manage to get it installed somehow, the machine likely doesn't have enough RAM.
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