Well maybe you installed Word and wrote a couple of docs, but still not satisfied. You’re so mad you even reboot your desktop Windows 7 computer by hitting the Reset button, but you did it. And if you used the install-from-flash-onto-external-USB-disk method, no bootloader either (that’s why I recommend to use an SD as an installation media, I did it that way, and the SD is always here as the bootloader, and for the sake of keeping the installer handy). No sound, no network, and not even any decent resolution or color depth. Drive the driversĪlright, you got the thing running. Always say “yes” so in case it hangs, you know where to substitute it for a “no” if it decides to hang on you. Right when it’s gonna detect devices it will ask you about every detection attempt. You may try installing DOS and copying the Win98 folder onto the SSD, and starting the installation from there, but it didn’t work out for me. If it decides to reboot on its own, point it to the installer media, not the SSD or the target disk! It doesn’t write any bootsector until it’s done doing stuff! By the way install it to D:\WINDOWS, because the C: drive is gonna be the installer flashdrive. The system will ask you some questions, and then proceed with the installation. Win98 installer freaking out on my Core i3 (yes I had to go the failed-to-start way) Sudo umount /dev/sdb sudo umount /dev/sdc sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb bs=1M For example if the HDD with 98 is /dev/sdc and the EEE’s SSD is /dev/sdb you will have to execute this in the Linux shell: After the installation to the USB drive is done (oh, make sure its size won’t exceed your EEE’s SSD length of 4000MB! I made mine 3200.), boot to some Linux LiveCD on your EEE and use DD to copy the HDD right onto the SSD. Find a relatively-new PC (that supports USB storage on BIOS level), plug in a hard drive that you will install into, and your installation media, off which you will boot. If it doesn’t start, well, there’s a solution for that too. If you use setup.exe, it will just stare at you with its deep black screen. Then enter cd Win98 (I blindly assume you didn’t rename anything you got from the CD, right?) and then setupcor /c /it /p a b. Now enter DIR and make sure you see the files you had on your installation USB. Once you’ve booted into it, go on and remove all of the stuff for the sake of creating a single 4GB partition on the SSD, and don’t forget to backup prior to that!Įnter BIOS and make sure the SSD is the first drive on the system. Get yourself a bootable flash with a partitioning tool.
Please note that Rufus installs a Windows Millenium DOS, so you better get an image of the Millenium boot floppy (for example from here) and grab Fdisk off it onto the USB. Add a copy of the Win98 folder from the 98 install disc, for the sake of booting and installing from it.
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