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
papsco

I'm really not sure what to suggest other than finding some way to copy the contents of the windows 98 disk onto the hard drive (which installing may prove difficult if it's a small hard drive)

One way to accomplish this would be to take the hard drive out and stick it in your pc/laptop (you will need an adaptor if it's a desktop) and use the cd drive there to copy files over.

Another as you said would be by using a serial connection (aka a null modem) but that would be fairly slow, RS232 transfers at 115 kilobits a second (which equates to about 14.4 kilobytes per second)