Copy the whole of the floppy to the hard drive. Then use EDIT to adjust any
reference in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT (and other BAT files that might be
part of the startup process) so that all references to A: and changed to C:.

The use the command SYS C: to install the boot files. This makes the hard
drive bootable with CD support, so you can either copy the installation
files to the hard drive and install from a hard drive folder, or install
from the CD. Be sure to rename or delete CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT when
installation is complete, or you will be forever booting up in installation
mode.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98
"spence" wrote in message
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I am trying to install win 98 on a 95 laptop, formatted
the hard drive etc but how can I install 98 if I have to
switch drives (completely take out floppy to put in 98SE
disk. is there a solution? a friend told me there is a
way to copy the floppy to the hd then start but how?

help greatly appreciated
Spence