What happened was I had to activate the partition, which I'd never heard of
unless i downloaded The Ultimate Boot CD and another, Boot 98se CD. After
that I was able to install 98se, then used my upgrade to ME cd, thanks all.

"Piedmont" wrote in message
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I have a laptop with no os on it, there is no disk drive, just a cd drive.
how do i install ME on it? I do have an ME Os disk.