I have a triple-boot setup with XP, 98SE, and 3.1. Found drivers for 98 at manufacturers' sites and/or drivers.com. Found most drivers for 3.1, except audio, modem, and USB drivers. "Clean install" works fine (except for 3.1 sound). I too tried to port my desktop Win98 partition, and encountered problems. Best I can tell, it was due to Norton Systemworks (anti-virus in particular) that should have been uninstalled first. (Haven't been able to go back, as the desktop is dead. R.I.P. Will get to it eventually with another desktop.)
LG Electronics CD/DVD 98 drivers were wrong model. I used "generic" Oak Technology drivers for CD read-only use in Windows 98. Believe I used old ATI mach64CT drivers for Win3.1. Don't know about Win98/3.1 drivers for nVidia GoForce5200, do a Google search for it. So not 100%, but permits access to some of my old programs that did not port to XP.
I'm trying a clean install and can't get any of the drivers installed. USB, CD-ROM, audio, none of them. I can't use my USB floppy if the USB isn't installed. Can't use the CD/DVD-ROM if I don't have the drivers and can't install them through either input. Any suggestions?
I rebooted to the 98/3.1 partition, to verify what was done. It's been a while.
Floppy is supported via the BIOS. Make sure you have USB emulation enabled. My iomega USB floppy came with a Win95/Win98 driver on CD, which is not required for 98SE. Make sure you are running Win98 SE for USB support, although this should not be required for the floppy.
For the CD, there is a LGDVD.sys driver in the config.sys file, and MSCDEX.exe in autoexec.bat. I have those files in root directory of the Win98 boot partition. Delete any entries like 'rem - Removed by Windows Setup' to re-enable these if Win98 install disables them. To get around the 'catch22' for the CD drive, I have a FAT32 data partition that can be seen both by XP and 98SE. PartitionMagic is essential here. Downloaded the drivers in XP to the data partition, then picked them up when booted 98SE. You can also access the 98 partition directly from XP via 'visible partition' override option in companion BootMagic configuration program.
Win98SE and Win3.1 both read the USB floppy just fine. I haven't installed the LGDVD.sys drivers for Win3.1/DOS6.22 yet (still have HP drivers from the desktop), so no CD in 3.1. Watch drive letter for the CD, as can move around with multi-boot. I use /L:I option on MSCDEX to assign it a fixed 'safe' letter. Make sure drive is assigned same letter in Win98 device manager.
The purpose of my multi-boot is to run all of the legacy stuff from the desktop. I had done clean installs with success, but overwritten when I reloaded the partition with Ghost image from the desktop drive. I abandoned the effort until I can reboot the drive on another desktop to get rid of Norton and other things that are causing conflicts on the 5150. Just haven't gotten back to it yet. But it can be done, just keep tweaking.
OK...I got Win98 running fairly well. I was able to find '98 versions of the video card drivers and others including network card (what a huge project that was!) but I'm having issues with some PCI cards including the sound card and still can't get the internal combo drive to work. Can't find the drivers for them anywhere. Did find a CD work-around with an external DVD burner. Any ideas as to first, what devices I need drivers for (The names for them aren't listed) and where I can find them? I've been raiding drivers sites like crazy for this project.
Also, what can I do to get the HD's out of MS-DOS compatibility mode? Thanks again. Once I get the whole thing up and running, I'll try to post everything here for reference.
PS: Anyone have success installing and running Linux/Linspire on the Inspiron?
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Jester1868
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October 4th, 2004 19:00
Shouldn't it be eyes?
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Message Edited by dspman on 10-04-2004 10:49 PM
Jester1868
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I'm trying a clean install and can't get any of the drivers installed. USB, CD-ROM, audio, none of them. I can't use my USB floppy if the USB isn't installed. Can't use the CD/DVD-ROM if I don't have the drivers and can't install them through either input. Any suggestions?
dspman
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October 5th, 2004 14:00
I rebooted to the 98/3.1 partition, to verify what was done. It's been a while.
Floppy is supported via the BIOS. Make sure you have USB emulation enabled. My iomega USB floppy came with a Win95/Win98 driver on CD, which is not required for 98SE. Make sure you are running Win98 SE for USB support, although this should not be required for the floppy.
For the CD, there is a LGDVD.sys driver in the config.sys file, and MSCDEX.exe in autoexec.bat. I have those files in root directory of the Win98 boot partition. Delete any entries like 'rem - Removed by Windows Setup' to re-enable these if Win98 install disables them. To get around the 'catch22' for the CD drive, I have a FAT32 data partition that can be seen both by XP and 98SE. PartitionMagic is essential here. Downloaded the drivers in XP to the data partition, then picked them up when booted 98SE. You can also access the 98 partition directly from XP via 'visible partition' override option in companion BootMagic configuration program.
Win98SE and Win3.1 both read the USB floppy just fine. I haven't installed the LGDVD.sys drivers for Win3.1/DOS6.22 yet (still have HP drivers from the desktop), so no CD in 3.1. Watch drive letter for the CD, as can move around with multi-boot. I use /L:I option on MSCDEX to assign it a fixed 'safe' letter. Make sure drive is assigned same letter in Win98 device manager.
The purpose of my multi-boot is to run all of the legacy stuff from the desktop. I had done clean installs with success, but overwritten when I reloaded the partition with Ghost image from the desktop drive. I abandoned the effort until I can reboot the drive on another desktop to get rid of Norton and other things that are causing conflicts on the 5150. Just haven't gotten back to it yet. But it can be done, just keep tweaking.
Message Edited by dspman on 10-05-2004 11:09 AM
Jester1868
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October 5th, 2004 21:00
OK...I got Win98 running fairly well. I was able to find '98 versions of the video card drivers and others including network card (what a huge project that was!) but I'm having issues with some PCI cards including the sound card and still can't get the internal combo drive to work. Can't find the drivers for them anywhere. Did find a CD work-around with an external DVD burner.
Any ideas as to first, what devices I need drivers for (The names for them aren't listed) and where I can find them? I've been raiding drivers sites like crazy for this project.
Also, what can I do to get the HD's out of MS-DOS compatibility mode? Thanks again. Once I get the whole thing up and running, I'll try to post everything here for reference.
PS: Anyone have success installing and running Linux/Linspire on the Inspiron?
dspman
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October 5th, 2004 23:00