Boot from your windows 98 cd and make a bootdisk from that? Or start windows and make bootdisk from there.

http://bootdisk.com has loads of 'em!

they dont quite have wot i m looking for 🙁 i m talking about the boot up floppy disk that comes equiped with the windows 98se cd package itself. when you boot it, it gives you the option of intsalling win98, or boot up with or without cd rom drive support.

I thought the OEM disks on the site were the correct ones? Dont know havent used a proper MS disk in years. I just a generic boot disk and run setup manually that way you get the bonus of using switches to skip the scandisk before setup starts
If you have a working copy of Win98 you can always do the following

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187632

It doesnt need to be a win98 startup disk any dos disk will do
just boot
type d:
setup
or install

ps: the disk you want is on bootdisk

It's also better to format the HD to fat32 first and copy the cd contents to the HD, makes installs 10 times faster.

Something that I've been meaning to upload for EONS...

In this directory:

http://jasonwilliams400com.startlogic.com/sno … /Bootup_Images/

These files:

1Disk_Imager_v1.1.txt
2Disk_Imager_v1.1.zip
3DR-DOS_v6.0_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
4DR-DOS_v6.0_Upgrade_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
5MS-DOS_v5.0_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
6MS-DOS_v6.0_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
7MS-DOS_v6.2_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
8MS-DOS_v6.22_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
9Windows_95_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
10Windows_95_Build_B_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
11Windows_98_Second_Edition_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip
12Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip

The "Disk_Imager_v1.1.zip" DOS utility creates disk images of standard floppy disks, and was used to create all of the floppy disk images contained in the ZIPs in that directory.

The "Self-Extracting" ZIPs contain a DOS EXE that will automatically recreate a floppy, without having to use the "Disk Imager" utility (insert a non-write protected floppy, and then execute the DOS program EXE).

"Disk Imager" has options to either create a standard "IMG" binary image file, or a DOS self-extracting/recreating EXE to recreate the floppy with... which is the format of the files contained in those ZIPs.

The "Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip is a standard bootable CD ISO image which can be burnt to a CD using your CD burning utility of choice.

I really don't remember what all I included and added to all of various floppies, but I *DO* remember that the "Windows_95_Build_B_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip" and "Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip" ones included:

FDISK, FORMAT, MSD, SCANDISK, ETC...,

...and loaded HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.SYS, as well as the OAKCDROM and MSCDEX CD-ROM drivers.

Hope this is helpful for ya'll 😀

P.S. Back in the day, I used the floppy created with the Windows_98_Second_Edition_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip quite extensively... mostly for wiping out a customer's hard drive in preparation for reinstalling Windows 98 SE:

1 - Bootup with floppy.

2 - Run FDISK and remove all partitions on the hard drive.

3 - Reboot (which of course, as detailed previously, loads the usual CD-ROM drivers).

4 - Insert the Windows 98 SE installation CD-ROM.

5 - Log onto the CD-ROM drive, and then run the Windows 98 SE installer.

(Edit) P.P.S. Here's a file listing of what is contained on the recreated bootup floppy contained in the Windows_98_Second_Edition_Self-Extracting_Bootup_Floppy_Image.zip file (as well as the CD-ROM image contained in the Windows_98SE_Bootup_CD_ISO.zip file):

104/23/1999 05:22pm  15,252 ATTRIB.EXE
212/31/2000 07:00pm      37 AUTOEXEC.BAT
304/23/1999 05:22pm  28,096 CHKDSK.EXE
404/23/1999 05:22pm  93,890 COMMAND.COM
512/31/2000 07:00pm     114 CONFIG.SYS
604/23/1999 05:22pm  69,902 EDIT.COM
704/23/1999 05:22pm  10,790 EDIT.HLP
804/23/1999 05:22pm  20,574 FC.EXE
904/23/1999 05:22pm  63,916 FDISK.EXE
1004/23/1999 05:22pm  49,575 FORMAT.COM
1104/23/1999 05:22pm  33,191 HIMEM.SYS
1204/23/1999 05:22pm  32,146 MEM.EXE
1304/23/1999 05:22pm  25,473 MSCDEX.EXE
1404/23/1999 05:22pm 166,023 MSD.EXE
1503/24/1998 10:05pm 291,652 NDIAGS.EXE
1603/24/1998 10:05pm 104,404 NDIAGS.HLP
1704/23/1999 05:22pm  41,302 OAKCDROM.SYS
1804/23/1999 05:22pm 143,818 SCANDISK.EXE
1904/23/1999 05:22pm   7,332 SCANDISK.INI
2004/23/1999 05:22pm  18,967 SYS.COM
2105/30/1995 11:58am  10,880 TEAC_CDA.SYS

Contents of CONFIG.SYS:

1DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS
2DEVICE=A:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM001
3rem DEVICE=A:\TEAC_CDA.SYS /D:CDROM001 /P:220 /T:0 /S:4

Contents of AUTOEXEC.BAT:

1@ECHO OFF
2A:\MSCDEX /D:CDROM001 /V

Re: "TEAC_CDA.SYS": I had a BUNCH of customers who had those old Panasonic interface 4x CD-ROM drives <grin> 😀