Sounds like Microsoft's generic OEM CDs you got there. Would blow my socks
off to find out they're bootable. I can't recall one instance of such a
disc. I do recall such with WIN95 discs.

Oh well, unless someone else can clarify... I'll dig through a couple of
places and see if I have one or two handy. But non-bootable is the standard
AFAIK.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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I got a laptop free and wanted to install 98 on it, a clean install
for
my
nephew. I burned a bootcd, and managed to format and partition it, my
trouble
starts because I dont have another disk drive to put the iso I have
in,
I
only have the one drive, the laptop does not have a Floppy drive.


Any suggestions? Whenever I try and use any setup commands I get
invalid
media trying to read disk


Win98 cd's at least legit ones are generally bootable
so you do not need a floppy

WRONG!!! Where do you get that? Find me one and describe the label. Bet
it
didn't come from Microsoft. Bet it was built by some OEM, and probably
specifically for laptops, at that. But not even Microsoft's generic "OEM"
CD, the one sent out with whitebox builds and smaller OEMs, is bootable.



That's weird I just setup a machine a few days ago and the Win98 cd was
bootable.
As I post this I have just confirmed that my win98 cd is bootable.
I have the license and everything. Though it does not say OEM on it...
it must be one though.

Here is what is says:

Microsoft Windows 98
for PC's without Windows.
I have a whole box of similar cd's that came from the many desktops I've
scrapped out...
none came from laptops and as far as I know, they are all bootable.
At least when I do setup a win98 machine I've never yet pulled one out of
the box
that did not boot.
The only exception was a win98 upgrade cd, that I assume was supposed to
be
installed
from within an existing OS or with a boot floppy.

So if most win98 cd's are not bootable then I am wrong!!!!
but all I can say is the ones I have come from Microsoft and do not have
the
name of any mfg on them
but they do indeed say : for PC's without windows.

So what's the deal?