A simple solution to your dilemma is to pull the drive and connect it with a $12.00 adapter to a modern 3.5 ide drive bay desktop computer, format the drive as fat32,copy the win98se directory off of the cdrom to the 2.5 laptop drive.. stick the laptop drive back into the laptop.. boot from a dos boot floppy made in xp, and execute the setup program on the hard drive in the windows directory... you do not need the cdrom if you have all the cab files....
Most decent computer stores offer 2.5 (laptop) drive adapters either to USB or IDE so you can connect them to a standard desktop to "work" on them or copy to/from... My CF-27 has no cdrom, but XP can be loaded in a similar process more or less, however the folder involved is the I386 folder from the install cd... .... The CF27 will take a lot bigger drive than 2 gigs..... I think mine is a 60 split in 2 partitions....One DOS fat32, on XP NTFS.... Doug KD8B At 07:21 PM 6/15/2008, you wrote: >Have you found one yet? > >*I May* have a CF27 up for sale. Bought it ironically at a hamfest 2 >weekends ago here in ATL. I LOVE the laptop. The only thing is that >I am having a heck of a time getting at least Win98 on the drive. No >CD drive. USB drive though. It came with a drive that had Lynx >(sp?)on it that was not really functioning. Needed something to use >with the program to program the Arcom RC210 with. Everything seems to >work on it, but the drive did take a dive. I had another drive (2gig)
