Installing Win ME on an IBM 560x

[Garou]

Is there anyway to make the IBM 560x boot from a pcmcia CD rom or a USB CDRom..
I am really stuck trying to install win me on this laptop.. I went to to the cmos setting and set the boot order to Cdrom ,FDD and HD.. Only the FDD and HD start up but I wont boot from the cd rom. when I use the boot floopy it says it cant find a cdrom...
Any help is greatly appreciated thanks..

[glc]

You need to make a custom boot floppy with PCMCIA or USB drivers. No, I don't know where to get them, try the manufacturer of the external device.

[Garou]

Well i got the drivers but I have NO IDEA on how to make a custom boot floppy..
Any help or a Making boot disc's for dummies can really help me out now..

[glc]

Give me links to your external drives, please. Do you have a Windows 95 or Windows 98 computer with a floppy drive available?

[Garou]

Originally Posted by glc Give me links to your external drives, please. Do you have a Windows 95 or Windows 98 computer with a floppy drive available?

Here is the links to my PCMCIA CDROM.
http://www.shining.com/download.html

at the moment I have no pc with win9x at the moment..

The model is a Shining PMIDE-ASC2B8A!

Sorry for the late post.
Thanks for the help..

[glc]

I made one for you.

http://bbscomp.com/george/floppy.exe

Download it, run it with a floppy in the drive. Then boot the laptop with the floppy and with the CD in the drive, it will put you at a R prompt and you *should* just be able to type SETUP if it has the right drivers and is configured correctly.

[Garou]

Originally Posted by glc I made one for you. http://bbscomp.com/george/floppy.exe Download it, run it with a floppy in the drive. Then boot the laptop with the floppy and with the CD in the drive, it will put you at a R prompt and you *should* just be able to type SETUP if it has the right drivers and is configured correctly.

I wanted to post an update. The file you uploaded works great. THANKS!!

Now the problem is that when I boot it up and run setup it says that setup cannot create a temporary directory becase the hd may be on HPFS or NTFS and its a fat32 partition...
I tried to run fdisk but it cant be found..

am I soing something wrong?

[glc]

At the R prompt, type:

dir fdisk.exe /s

That should find it. If it's in a subdirectory, just chdir to it and run it.

[Garou]

Originally Posted by glc At the R prompt, type: dir fdisk.exe /s That should find it. If it's in a subdirectory, just chdir to it and run it.

All i keep getting is file not found....

[glc]

Here's a link to a standard Windows ME bootdisk - it should have Fdisk on it somewhere. Just boot with that and repartition the drive, then use the custom one for the install. No need to format with the bootdisk - the ME setup will do that for you.

http://spock.uccs.edu/pub/bootdisks/bootme.exe

NOTE: Maybe the original bootdisk you tried may have fdisk on it?

[Garou]

Originally Posted by glc Here's a link to a standard Windows ME bootdisk - it should have Fdisk on it somewhere. Just boot with that and repartition the drive, then use the custom one for the install. No need to format with the bootdisk - the ME setup will do that for you. http://spock.uccs.edu/pub/bootdisks/bootme.exe NOTE: Maybe the original bootdisk you tried may have fdisk on it?

This is very odd..
After fdisk and format with the ME bootdisk.. I use the disk that you provided and it still stays the same message....

[glc]

Okay, I made you a new bootdisk, same link.

I think the problem was I used DOS 6.22 to make the first one, the new one is a modified ME bootdisk, all I did was rewrite the config.sys and autoexec.bat and dig a few files out of the EBD (this is what the standard bootdisk puts in the ramdrive). DOS 6.22 can't speak FAT32. This one has fdisk and format and a bunch of other stuff on it if you need it.

[Garou]

Originally Posted by glc Okay, I made you a new bootdisk, same link. I think the problem was I used DOS 6.22 to make the first one, the new one is a modified ME bootdisk, all I did was rewrite the config.sys and autoexec.bat and dig a few files out of the EBD (this is what the standard bootdisk puts in the ramdrive). DOS 6.22 can't speak FAT32. This one has fdisk and format and a bunch of other stuff on it if you need it.

Thanks alot for the help. It got the laptop working..
Thanks alot again