On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 22:45:05 -0800, "Brothersid"
wrote:

on a laptop that can only have either the floppy or cd drive in at once? and
no setting in the bios for boot from cd?

In general, to reinstall Win98 you can create a separate folder
(c:\windows\options\cabs is the conventional folder -- but it can be the
other one by your choice) and copy there all the files from WIN98 folder
of CDROM -- only files, with no subfolders, ca.100MB total.

Then boot from the floppy, and run Setup in this folder. That will
reinstall Windows on top if you choose "Install in the existing folder".
All the programs installed before will work then.

If you want to do a clean install of Win98 -- the method is the same,
but after booting from the diskette you have to rename "Program Files"
(in DOS it has a name PROGRA~1) and Windows folders to delete them
later, and choose installation in the new C:\WINDOWS folder after
running Setup. Then you'll have to reinstall all the programs.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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