Installing win98 without a floppy drive

[mongo1]

I have recently purchased a new laptop with xp installed and no floppy drive. Some of the software I use at work will not run on a ntsf formatted harddrive. So I was planning to use partition magic to make a fat32 active partition and install win98 on it. but with out a floppy how do I do this? Can I make a win98 cd bootable?

 

[wolluf]

A win98 install CD IS bootable.

 

[wolluf]

PS. You'd be best hiding the ntfs partition while installing 98 (doesn't usually install if it detects an ntfs partition).

 

[jerrysc1]

This is real simple - find someone that has a cd burner and have them make you a bootable image of the floppy windows startup disk - this works great and is much faster than the floppy. When you use this it is a little confusing because even though it is in your cd drive you will access it using the a: drive commands - if you can't find someone to do this for you send me your address and I will send you one - I had the opposite problem with a laptop that used an external CD drive and had to get a copy of win95 on disks before i could get the OS to recognize the CD drive.

 

[jmatt]

This contains the do's & dont's .
You will still need to use the the methods posted above .

How to install Windows® 98/Me after I've installed XP?
(without 3rd party software)

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm