more computer info needed

[flex123]

ok if you remember my post about my girlfriend buying that laptop great, cause this is what it's about.

The laptop is completely bare and has no operating system. I need to set the bios setting to boot the cdrom first and than I can easily install the os....my problem is that on this old old ancient laptop there is only a setting for diskette and hard-rive in the boot settings of the bios menu.

The laptop does has a cdrom so I dont understand why I cant select it in the bios. any help guys...I've been fucking with this laptop for days and it's driving me nuts.

I want to just throw the thing out or sell it back on ebay, but the girlfriend is making me get it running first.

Help a desperate man out guys

 

[XBiker]

Boot disk or bios upgrade.

Check the manufacturers site for a bios upgrade.

If they don't have one, you should be able to create a boot disk from the CD.

What OS are you trying to install?

 

[flex123]

I have a windows 98 cd.

The computer is an old laptop: Dell Latitude XPI P150st

Which bootdisk will make the bios menu have cdrom selectable in it?

thanks man for attempting to help me out here...I really do appreciate it. I have better things to do than fuck with this computer but my obsessive compulsive behavior wont allow me to stop messing with it until I get it to work.

 

[XBiker]

I have a windows 98 cd.

The computer is an old laptop: Dell Latitude XPI P150st

Which bootdisk will make the bios menu have cdrom selectable in it?

thanks man for attempting to help me out here...I really do appreciate it. I have better things to do than fuck with this computer but my obsessive compulsive behavior wont allow me to stop messing with it until I get it to work.

You can create a boot disk from most of the MS CD's that will allow you to boot in to DOS and start the OS load from there.

I have long since forgotten about 98, so try www.bootdisk.com

 

[flex123]

still nothing...this computer is going to be the death of me

 

[Devastation]

find a windows 98 boot disk. have the laptop boot first from the floppy. dos will load along with a generic cd-rom driver. it will tell you your cd-rom drive is D: or E:. go to that propmt and type install. make sure your windows 98 disk is in the cd rom drive. also your 98 cd is a full version not an upgrade right?

 

[callthedoctor]

The above should work.....

 

[Ganryu]

Is this an internal CDROM, or a cheap ass one coming off the the parrallel port? That could be why it isn't in the bios. Oh, and the above should work.