IBM ThinkPad 760ED

[rewep]

Just bought this laptop off of eBay and now I have a small question.

Since the floppy and CD-ROM are swappable.. how do I get Windows 98 installed onto a blank HD. I don't have the disks that would have originally come with the laptop, but I don't think they would be much help anyway because from I understand they were for Win 3.1.

If I boot from my 98 EBD and select boot with CD-ROM support that won't work because the CD-ROM isn't in the laptop, and thus it won't load the drivers.

Should I install DOS onto the HD, and then load the DOS CD-ROM drivers for my laptop from the IBM website?

If this is the best way to do it.. can someone send me a link to where I can get DOS? It's hard as hell to find.. or can someone just tell me what files I would need to get the laptop to boot to the c:\ prompt, and how to edit them to do so, if editing is needed?

Sorry for the long post, and the most likely stupid questions.. I'm just confused.. had the CD-ROM or floppy been external I would have no problem.

When I first got the laptop It booted to c:\ but with no CD-ROM support, because I had yet to install the drivers.. I didn't install the drivers until after I formatted the drive and lost the ability to boot to c:\ this is why I need help.

Thank you for ANY help that you guys can give me.. I appreciate it a lot.

[NooNoo]

OK, I would do this - cos I am lazy!

Download a dos bootdisk
Format and sys the hard drive
Load the cd rom drivers into the autoexec.bat / config.sys

Shut down and swap the cdrom in
now copy the win98 directory from the cdrom onto the hard drive to c:\win98 or something similar.

Change to the c:\win98 directory run setup.exe. Not only will it install a lot faster from the hard drive, you won't have to go fishing for the win98 cdrom everytime you change the 98 config.

[rewep]

good idea, and it worked. i got it up and running but the hd is bad so it will only run wondows once for about 30 minutes, then freeze and not load windows after i restart.. oh well, if there are any 2gb drives left out there i'll find one and get it running again.