With an AMD processor, your chip-set is either an AMD, ALI, SiS, or VIA.
You still need to identify the motherboard or the chips on the motherboard.
If you can burn the drivers onto a CD, you can boot from your W98 startup disk and copy the files from the CD onto your hard drive.
At the DOS prompt, follow these commands:
C: (press enter)
MD drivers (press enter)
cd drivers (enter)
Change to the drive letter that the startup utility assigned to your CD drive.
It will be at least F:
F: (enter)
If needed, change to the folder that the drivers are located in.
Then, copy the drivers to the hard drive.
copy *.* c:\drivers *.*
Boot into Windows and run the setup program for the drivers.
Since I have run into this kind of problem more than once, what I do when I setup a new PC is as follows:
I place the hard drive in a “Hot-Swap” bay on my main PC.
I partition the drive with at least 1 logical drive on an extended DOS partition. (Typically, I make this drive at least 2GB in size.)
I then copy the Windows CD and ALL driver files for the target system.
I then install the drive on the target system.
When I boot from the startup disk, I browse to the drive and folder where I copied the Windows CD and run setup from there.
I NEVER need to insert the Windows CD to install devices or network components.
I don’t have to worry about the instances where Windows needs the CD but can’t yet find the CD drives.
Come to think of it, that is another option for you.
Boot from the startup floppy.
Choose which hard drive has enough extra space for the W98 CD. (450MB)
Create a folder on the drive such as W98
Insert the W98 CD and use the Xcopy command.
xcopy F: C:\W98
I’m rusty on my DOS commands. I think you need to set a couple of switches to copy the sub-folders.
Just do a web search on xcopy and you should find a site that will detail how to use the command.
Chas
