You should have no trouble installing a retail version.  I reformatted my 
Tecra 8100 and used a regular old Windows 98SE CD for the install.  Then 
later I reformatted again and installed Windows 2000 using another retail 
CD.  Whoever had trouble must have done something wrong...

As for the drivers, I think the only ones I ended up downloading and 
installing were the sound and video ones, all the extra utilities and such 
are not necessary.

Smith

"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message 
news:b21m72df6gmncftv22hg6h1n05bckaas5k@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 10:25:49 -0700, "Cari" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>You might be able to find a retail one on EBay but I'm pretty sure Toshiba
>>won't have any left, it's out of support.  You will still be able to use 
>>the
>>retail version... and then download the utilities and drivers from the
>>Toshiba website.
>>-- 
>>Cari (MS-MVP)
>>Printing & Imaging
>>http://www.coribright.com/windows
>>
>>
>>
>>"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message
>>news:cqri72plk6m9edkv33i9m1dn9obn6tgd06@4ax.com...
>>> Pretty much says it all. I couldn't find a place to ask on the Toshiba
>>> website.
>>>
>>>
>>
> Would there be a problem if I downloaded and installed all of them (except 
> the ones for linux,if
> any). What I'd like to do is make a CD that has all the windows drivers 
> but don't want to do that
> if, for instance, a Win 2000 driver would conflict with a Win 98 driver 
> installed on the same
> machine.
>
> I read in the comp.sys.win98 newsgroup that someone had tried to install 
> Win 98 SE retail version on
> a Toshiba Tecra 8000 (same as mine) and it wouldn't work.