Got it installed, I think the problem was the partition needed activated.
I'd never heard of having to activate a partition but after I did it, I was
able to install 98. I downloaded several handy CDs, Ultimate Boot CD and a
boot 98se CD. Alas I think that the laptop is too new as the other poster
said that 98 won't have all the drivers, plus the old problem that I always
seemed to run into was during install, about 20 files were missing and I
ain't tracking em all down plus the 6-8 drivers to operate all the little
things. It was fun but I think now I'll spot the $25 for a restore cd from
emachine and put xp back on. Thanks to all.
Piedmont

"Piedmont" wrote in message
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I have a laptop with no OS on it and need to know how to install 98 on it,
there is no floppy drive just a CD drive and I do have a 98 disk.