hey guys i just got this IBM 765L from my school and im trying to get 98se on it. it has nothing on it right now because they were donated = hd erased. I keep trying to get dos v6.22 on it but every time i put the floppy in it says non system disk or disk error. i have run the diagnostics program through its bios and it says nothing is wrong with my hardware. i have no clue what im going wrong and im a begginer so please spell it out simply for me. thanks in advance guys.

There's no real reason to use 622 if your goal is to install Win98 - get yourself a Win98 boot disk and start the computer with that. Likely you need to change the boot order so that the floppy drive is the first boot device (from the CMOS) We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

Stick around. You probably need to change the boot order. TO enter the bios, START WITH the machine OFF HOLD and CONTINUE to hold "F1" WHILE STILL HOLDING "F1", turn on the machine This should get you into "easy setup" If you need drivers, they might not be available at IBM--now Lenovo--but some drivers might be there listed under similar machines---for example, some of the drivers for the now very old 360XX series can be found listed under the 755 series. Not all that stuff is still at IBM/Lenovo There is another place "greyghost" that has archived many of the old files There's some good info here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/index.php and this: http://greyghost.dyndns.org/pccbbs/ is the list for the greyghost site. There's a large text file at the top of the list--be sure to read that.

yea i already have a boot disk floppy and it still reads the same message as before. and my boot order i already changed before to make sure the floppy was primary with no sucess. it still wont read the boot disk floppy though. i got it from http://www.bootdisk.com/ . am i doing everything right or does it need to be on a cd?

You are aware that the files downloaded from bootdisk.com etc. are not (themselves) bootable, right? You must run the executable file in order to create the actual bootdisk We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

ok and you do this how? sorry im new to this.

If you have a microsoft win98SE install CD, it should be bootable. Run the file that you downloaded and it will create a bootable floppy. But if you have a win98se CD, just boot it up. Do yourself a favor BACKUP!!!