Oh my god, such a fast response, thanks everyone. I'm still struggling,
everything I seem to do doesn't seem to work. I got my disk from


Allbootdisks.com

The problem is that the laptop has an interchangeable cd and floppy drive,
and I, of course don't have the floppy portion.

Okay, I've read the help file and I tried sys, I've tried the ext, I've
tried everything I could think of and these are my results:



"Sys C:"
Invalid media type reading drive C.

Ext is the extraction utility and I get somewhere, with that one at least.
but I don't know exactly what to put in there.


"Ext'

Microsoft Extract Command Line Helper
Please enter the path to the windows CAB files (a _
"E:"

What are the Name(s) of the File(s) that you wish to extract?_
"Win98"

Please enter the path that you wish to extract to, ( enter for current
directory)
"(Enter)"
I've also tried
"C:"
The options you entered we
Source path E:
File(s) to extract Win98
Destination path C:
Is this okay? (y/n)
"y"


Error cannot open file E: \ (null)




I'm really stuck on this one, and I know I could scrap it and all, but it's
become a personal vendetta and i really want completion


thanks so much for helping guys.



"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

My suggestion: Use IsoBuster to extract the contents of the Win98 ISO. All
you need from this ISO is the folder named WIN98. The rest is generally
useless. Make a bootable CD and copy the WIN98 folder to it. Boot to the CD
and then run SETUP.EXE from the WIN98 folder.

But my preferred method is: If you made your original bootable CD from a
WIN98 Startup floppy disk, then you should be able to run the following
command:
SYS C:
Then copy the WIN98 folder to the hard drive, remove the CD, restart and
you'll get a C:\ prompt. Run the following commands:
CD WIN98
SETUP

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"xskarmah" wrote in message
...
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