the only way to install windows 98 on that machine is with the floopy drive and a windows 98 start up disk.
once you start up the computer, you can partition and format the drive with the fdisk and format dos commands.
to load windows requires you to have the 98 disk in the cd rom drive . as a alternative, you can partition and
format the hard drive in the 380z, and then install the hard drive in another computer as a slave, and copy all the files from a windows 98 cd rom, AND any drivers needed
(from the lenovo web site) then just re-install the hard drive in the 380z, and start up the computer with the start up disk.
load windows normally by going to the c\:windows\setup files.
(remember to go into the bios setup, and specify to boot from floppy). also, the 380z has a limit on hard drive sizes.
it will ONLY recignise the first 8 gigs of any disk you put in it, and if you want to utilize the rest of the disk, you must use windows xp, makeing the main/boot partition 8 gigs or what ever the fdisk allows, and then create another partition in windows xp to recover the rest of the drive.
if you use 98, the rest of the disk will never be able to be utilized. (boot partitions use bios to configure, xp uses a boot maneger and can overcome the bios limitation) using xp also requires the newest bios update, and a 128 meg edo so-dimm memory module (made by kingston, along with several other vendors, (but never by ibm). without the update, the sound wont work. without the memory , it will be un-usably slow. good luck. i had a 380z, and used it for 4 years befor retiring it for a 600x. it ran xp quite well, and i even installed a dvd combo drive in it, along with a margi dvd-to-go mpeg card to watch
dvd's. adrian
