i bought an IBM thinkpad 390e, it has no operating system, so i got a win 98 disk,and i made a startup disk on floppy is the disk i got full version it says win 98 second edition it came with a booklet and product codethe dick also says for distribution with new pc,i got the disk that came with an old gateway,do i need a special ibm disk i thought i could put this diks in and go from there do i have to buy the whole 98 os then update to se did microsoft make a 98 se standalone disk,if anybody has any answers i would love to hear them does anybody know were i could get a free os ,pm me and i'll give u my e-mail address thanks
if the hd has been partitioned & formated than boot up on the win98 bootdisk & select #1:cdrom support. if e: is the cdrom according to the bootdisk than type at the a: prompt e: & enter. at the erompt type setup, enter & windows will start installing. thing to remember is that windows might not have all the drivers for the laptop.
I do try to help folks every once in awhile, if I can. But it is damned near impossible to read a long post that has no punctuation and no capital letters, where they belong, at the beginning of sentence. Do you people learn anything in school?
Last time I put capital letters I got my ass reemed out,sorry that you have trouble reading mabe you should go back to school.
why do think i asked what version he/she had as i didn't understand all of that post. also who knows if that person's native language is english.
maybe was spelt wrong,sorry for the incorrect grammer,take a chill pill, this is only a forum not life or death!
mplshowie, that was a no no to a senior member. if you read GrandpaBW's sig, he is also a lot older than you & about 10-20 over me! you can use caps at the begining of each sentence, just not the whole post!
My native tounge is ENGLISH I just have trouble typing what I want to say,now I will reedify problem in the simplistand most efficient way I know how. I have an IBM 390E Thinkpad with no operating system,I would like to install Windows 98 2nd edition,can any of you help me?
You answered my question. You must be pretty young. @ddp: Thanks for the last post. As for the language not being native English, I realize that that may be the case in some instances, but obvioulsy not, here. If you read posts by folks, who's native language is not English, the words in the sentence are not always in the correct order. However, I have rarely seen those posts contain 12 separate sentences in one paragraph, with no punctuation or capitalization of the first letter of a new sentence.
when booting off the win98 boot disk, you have a # of drives. a:floppy, c:hd, d:ram drive & e: is your cdrom drive. when the boot disk loads, it tells you what letter the rom drive is. the d:ramdrive & e:cdrom drive is temporary til windows finishes loading than the cdrom becomes d:
