That's not vintage.
First important question: is there a floppy drive? By that time it was usually a removable CDROM drive where you'd install a floppy in place of, not both side by side.
Even up to Slot 1 (circa 1998?) it was common to have mobos that couldn't CD boot.
The technique I would use is what I've used myself several times...take drive out, partition and format in another computer (FAT32!!!) then copy the contents of a Win98 disk to a folder Win98 or similar on the HDD. Then boot with floppy (if you've got an FDD that is), cd to the Win98 dir on C:\, run setup from there.
Way faster and far more reliable than from CD, plus when it prompts for the disk during later driver installs it knows where the files are on the hdd.
>386 is NOT VINTAGE guys...come on now.
SP, do you mean you let the install completely finish? With 98 this is usually OK because it doesn't hold on to your hardware for dear life, but with NT/2k/XP that generally won't work (but if you power it off at the time of the first reboot, it generally will be able to successfully install if you then swap the drive back to the original machine since nothing has been "installed" yet, only copied).
386 is not Vintage? My beloved Laserjet 4L finally died. May she rest in peace. Wouldn't even power up a week or so ago.Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=7880&stc=1&d=1266262166)
But hey, allows me to throw away this stupid USB to Parallel Port dongle and upgrade to a Color Laser.
>386 is NOT VINTAGE guys...come on now.
The technique I would use is what I've used myself several times...take drive out, partition and format in another computer (FAT32!!!) then copy the contents of a Win98 disk to a folder Win98 or similar on the HDD. Then boot with floppy (if you've got an FDD that is), cd to the Win98 dir on C:\, run setup from there.
Way faster and far more reliable than from CD, plus when it prompts for the disk during later driver installs it knows where the files are on the hdd.
Most laptop drives are not connected to by ribbon cables, but by something like the part of a membrane that connects to the keyboard controller board.
Fighting 3D cards?Show Image(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc307/InSanCenPP/3dcard.jpg)
Old, but still great. From Sept '99 Maximum PC.
Now that I think of it, the Dell I used to have came with a cable to use the modular floppy drive on the parallel port. Might be similar here.
386 is not Vintage? My beloved Laserjet 4L finally died. May she rest in peace. Wouldn't even power up a week or so ago.My Laserjet 4s send their condolences, :-(
But hey, allows me to throw away this stupid USB to Parallel Port dongle and upgrade to a Color Laser.
ItlnStln has a Laserjet 4. I think mine was the cheaper one at the time. $600.Cheaper to buy, yes. Faster to print, yes. Better, maybe. Cheaper to run over years, probably not.
Sometimes technology DOES get cheaper and better.
Yeah, mine is the one on the left. It was a hand-me-down from my parents. I don't print much, so it does the job just fine.
Dang, if I had known you guys had these I wouldn't have given two NIB 4L toner cartridges to Goodwill.