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