Does anyone know where to find a bootdisk for Win 98 with PCMCIA-support? Not at bootdisk.com anyway.

I'm trying to install Win 98 on an old Sony Vaio but when I run the installation program it sais it can't find the drivers. And from what I understand that means it lacks drivers for the PCMCIA Cd-rom driver.

Please Help!!

PCMCIA is a card for a laptop (like a nic) is this computer a laptop? The boot disk should have the generic CD rom drivers. Is there a PCMIA card plugged into this laptop? If so take it out and see if you still get the error.

PCMCIA Definition

Sony Vaio do make laptops so I'm guessing so...

I think that you'll find that Robor's problem is that he's trying to boot up a Sony Vaio laptop from a floppy boot disk. He then needs to run the Windows 98 setup from a CD. He has an external CDROM drive which connects via a PCMCIA card connection into the side of his laptop. His problem is that he can't access the CDROM drive because his floppy boot disk doesn't contain the PCMCIA drivers.

Robor, are you sure that you need a floppy boot disk? When I've set up Sony Vaios before, I've been able to boot the system from the CD drive, even an external one. If your system won't boot directly from the CD, go into the BIOS and check the boot sequence, e.g. first drive to try is the CDROM, second drive to try is the floppy, then try the hard drive last of all.

To get into the BIOS, switch on the laptop and, as soon as the display comes on, look for some text that says something like "Press F1 to enter Setup" or something like that.

Thanks for answering guys!

DJNafey you're right on target.

Thing is. I CAN boot from the Win98 CD but when I start the installationsequence it sais it can't find the CD drivers when trying to install them, and then it quits. Same thing if I just run the floppy boot disk and try to start with CD-rom support.
I believe that's beacause it tryes to install drivers for a IDE driver. But I don't really know.

What do you think?

:: roborb

Btw. What does the "s" do in"format c: /s".

Originally Posted by robor

Btw. What does the "s" do in"format c: /s".

The "/s" makes the drive a bootable drive by copying the file command.com
to C: at the end of the procedure.

I don't know. I guess if Sony made a recovery CD for your laptop, then it must have contained either a custom Windows 98 installation routine, with the right drivers in it, or they probably just set the recovery CD to install an image of a laptop that was fully configured.

You might find some answers on http://www.vaio-link.com

I have the similar problem. When I boot up my Acer laptop, it did not find the PCMCIA driver (DOS only show up the floppy drive & hard drive options), therefore I cannot load the WIn 98SE into my com.

Can any one help me??

Originally Posted by rikman

I have the similar problem. When I boot up my Acer laptop, it did not find the PCMCIA driver (DOS only show up the floppy drive & hard drive options), therefore I cannot load the WIn 98SE into my com.

Can any one help me??

I don't know. What I know is that I couldn't solve it, would have needed a recovery CD from Sony, so maybe that's what you need too.

:: robor