RE: Talking of "Ghost"s...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

> 1) Can you not use a "Standard" Win98 install CDROM? They
have boot
> capabilities and will install appropriate drivers.

My Win98 installation CD (an original that came with a bought PC no longer
in existance) doesn't autoboot in the Sony ... it does in my main PC
though.
I get a similar thing happens with bootable CD's that CD Creator creates
...
they'll boot in the Armada or the Main PC but not in the Sony.

> 2) Use drive image or drive copy and actually create the original
image on
a
> bootable CD that you can use to restore the image. It may force the
HDD to
> partition to the original size but you can fix that afterwards
> with partion magic or similar or just live with 2 partitions.

If I had more of an idea on how PC's work then maybe I could do that...

> 3) Boot from a standard Win98 install CD. Quit setup. SYS the HDD.
Make a
> Win98 directory and copy the install files to it. Run setup from HDD.
(i.e.
> standard work around for buggy CDROM drives.

Again, can't boot from Win98 CD...

> 4) Network install.

No PCMCIA network card support and without a floppy then no way of getting
such!

Just trying this ... use Win2k CD to boot from (Win2k CD does autoboot in
the VAIO) - use that to create 11Gb FAT32 partition. Kill install once
partition is formatted and then reboot with recovery CD.

Seems that this is looking like it might work...

Phil