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A ThinkPad T42 with a Pentium M and a Radeon 7500. The goal is to get Windows 98SE installed on it, to deprecate the virtual machine that I sometimes use for nostalgia purposes.

The setup is far from easy and backups are being done by archiving the entire drive on falcon, my main desktop, via an IDE-to-USB adapter I bought specially for this project.

If it truly fails, I might end up installing Windows 2000 SP4 on it instead.

Setup checklist

  • Setup
  • Ethernet driver (apps/setup/setupbd/w98-ws32/setupbd.exe)
    This was copied over to the laptop from a ThinkPad X23 running Windows XP over infrared, at about 8kbps, as neither Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ethernet or USB worked, and I was not equipped to try RS232.
    Beyond this point, files are copied via a WebDAV server hosted on mountain.
  • 7-Zip 7.20
  • DirectX 9.0c
  • Radeon 7500 via devmgr (driver/9x_inf)
  • Screen configuration
  • intel-mobo
    • isapnp.vxd not found (CD unavailable)
    • 2 reboots, including one hard reboot
  • Reinstallation of the PCI ISA Bridge driver
  • IBM Battery MaxiMizer
  • ThinkPad Audio
    • 2 reboots
    • 2 manual actions to point to the CD
    • 2 file conflicts: overwrite existing files
  • ThinkPad HotKey Features
  • ADI Audio
    • Overwrite all conflicts with the other driver
  • ThinkPad UltraNav
  • ThinkPad UltraBay
  • ThinkPad Hibernation Utility
  • Intel SpeedStep
  • Screen (INF file to configure in the display settings)
  • 56K modem
  • Windows Installer 2.0
  • DAEMON Tools 3.47
  • Internet Explorer 6 SP1
  • Opera 9.64
  • TightVNC 1.3.10
  • RetroZilla 2.2
  • eXeScope 6.50
  • Windows Media Player 9 Series
  • Windows Media Player 10 (98MP10FR)
    • 1 file conflict: overwrite
  • Paint Shop Pro 9
  • Animation Shop 3
  • [Position of current backup]
  • Office XP Windows protection error
  • Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Windows protection error
  • MSDN 6.0

To-do

  • Try Unknown Devices to find the missing drivers
  • Retrieve msimg32.dll from Windows ME for Opera
  • Try to copy the 98 VM's disk, then install the drivers
  • Install Microsoft Train Simulator
  • Install SpeedFan
  • Consider other Office versions?
  • Test USB support on a different OS