Formatting and Partitioning under Win98 SE Installer

[WinNut]

Is there a way I can manually format and partition drives under the Windows 98 installer? If so, can I have instructions on how to access it and how to work with FDISK? I have only used Diskpart and have never used the older utility and would greatly appreciate assistance.

[qwertywarrior]

use Gparted - partition the drives

then install windows 98

 

no idea how to do it using the 98 installer though

[WinNut]

use Gparted - partition the drives

then install windows 98

no idea how to do it using the 98 installer though

Is GParted offered as a 1.44 MB floppy image?

BTW here are the specs:

Asus SP97-V

Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz (was OCed to 262 but go through status updates)

48MB of generic SIMMs

Seagate Medalist x2 (boot is 6GB, don't know about the other)

AOpen case

Windows 98 SE (found the boot floppy and CDROM in my teacher's closet, found a serial key online)

[qwertywarrior]

Is GParted offered as a 1.44 MB floppy image?

BTW here are the specs:

Asus SP97-V

Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz (was OCed to 262 but go through status updates)

48MB of generic SIMMs

Seagate Medalist x2 (boot is 6GB, don't know about the other)

AOpen case

Windows 98 SE (found the boot floppy and CDROM in my teacher's closet, found a serial key online)

oh its ancient

you have two choices then

 

 

Ranish

http://www.ranish.com/part/

 

or

 

Partition Logic

http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

 

both Floppy compatible

 

#1.44MbMasterRace

[qwertywarrior]

also take a look at the following distros  for sub 48mb systems

 

1) Tiny Core Linux
http://tinycorelinux.net/
2) Slitaz
http://www.slitaz.org/en/
Tiny Slitaz?
http://www.slitaz.org/en/
3) DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[IdeaStormer]

Partition Magic was the tool I used back in the day. Not sure if you can still get it, otherwise I'd use Gparted and your system should allow CD boot of it.

[Yummychickenblue]

Why not boot off a Linux USB drive (or CD if the machine you're using can't boot of a USB) and format it through the Linux UI?

[ionbasa]

DOS boot diskette, use the FORMAT command: http://www.computerhope.com/formathl.htm

[WinNut]

Why not boot off a Linux USB drive (or CD if the machine you're using can't boot of a USB) and format it through the Linux UI?

It doesn't even support CDROM boot.

[IdeaStormer]

It doesn't even support CDROM boot.

 

What, how'd you get the OS installed without CD-ROM? Boot floppies but the computer can start up off the CD-ROM given a bootable CD.

[Yummychickenblue]

It doesn't even support CDROM boot.

Plug in a drive containing Linux and format the Windows drive from in there?

[WAI]

curious... what's the purpose of all this for that old system 

[WinNut]

What, how'd you get the OS installed without CD-ROM? Boot floppies but the computer can start up off the CD-ROM given a bootable CD.

The floppy boot disk boots the PC and then hands control over to the files on the CDROM once the installer has been loaded to RAM. I also checked the BIOS and it only supports floppy and HDD boot.

curious... what's the purpose of all this for that old system

It's for shits and giggles. I love old hardware.

[WAI]

same here bro same here... 

[Yummychickenblue]

same here bro same here... 

It's also his teachers main machine so. . . 

[WinNut]

It's also his teachers main machine so. . .

His main rig is some HP with a GeForce 310 on an AMD processor, that was his old rig.

[Guest]

Use a DOS command like a person above has stated. That seems like an only way since i cannot even find any anicient partition and formatting software...