Installing win98 w/no cdrrom drive

[papsco]

Hi all, just come across something new and i have no idea of how to solve this problem. I have just been handed a very old laptop with only serial & parallel ports with no cdrom drive but with a floppy drive. I have been asked to install windows 98 on it but have no idea where to start and even if it is possible.
Win95 is currently installed on the laptop but there are registry problems that won't allow win95 to fire up so it is pretty much useless.

Stupid question from someone who thought they knew about computers (me) connecting the serial port between 2 computers, umm! does that work?, please don't laugh. I was thinking that if it did could i somehow use the cdrom drive in my main computer to install win98 on the laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards:confused:

papsco

[Murf]

Welcome to CTH

You can do that.

It is called "Direct Connect" however, both computers have to have the ability to boot up.

Have you tried to restore/repair the registry on the Win 95 machine?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221512/EN-US/

[luzchurch]

I once had to load win95 on a computer that had no CD rom. I used some 55 floppy disks to copy the program from a CD and used them to load.
Win98 must use more disks.

[Murray S.]

I once had to load win95 on a computer that had no CD rom. I used some 55 floppy disks to copy the program from a CD and used them to load.
Win98 must use more disks.

Howdy:

Cosidering Win95 came on floppies as well as a cd, why would you do that? :confused: :dizzy:

Murray

[luzchurch]

Because someone had a computer (that had no CD rom) that had windows 3.1 and wanted to try out win95. My own computer had a CD rom and a valid win95 disk.