How do you make a Windows 98SE boot disk w/out the CD and how do you install Windows 98SE from the upgrade CD?

[SilentBoB]

First question, How do you make a Windows 98SE boot disk without the CD? My CD-ROM is broke and I need to make a boot disk but when I try going through control panel > add/remove programs > Create Startup Disk , it asks for the windows 98 CD!
2nd question, I have the full windows 95 CD and I have the Windows 98SE upgrade CD. How do I do a full install of Windows 98SE on my new, freshly formatted hard drive, self built computer? I know that when it asks for proof of ownership, you just point it to the Windows 95 CD, but how do you initialize the Windows 98 install from DOS?

Basically, my computer is finally built, but I don't know how to make it a boot disk w/out a CD-ROM drive and I don't know how to install Windows 98SE on the new computer.

 

[Shotokan]

To make a boot disk use to c:\windows\command\bootdisk.bat.

If you have access to a zip drive and a pc with a working cdrom you can copy the win98 directory to the zip then to hard drive and install it that way. I usually keep the win98 directory on d: partition to have easy access to drivers. It's less than 100 megs.

 

[Ulysses]

Just get a cheap generic CD drive, a cable and plug it in.

 

[Mday]

it asked for the CD because it needs the installation files to make the boot disk.

i kept all win98se installation stuff on D:\win98... 121 MB here.

 

[Spec]

For future referance
copy your win CD to your HD soooooo much easier
to reinstall for clean restart

 

[Olorin]

I assume the new hard drive has a working cdrom drive To run the setup from DOS just boot from the start up disk choosing "start computer with cdrom support" then:

c:\>d:
d:\>setup

Like Mday and Spec said, it's best to run the install from the hard drive, so a better choice is:

c:\>md win98
c:\>d:
d:\>cd win98
d:\win98>copy *.* c:\win98
d:\win98>c:
c:\>cd win98
c:\win98>setup

Sorry if you know DOS already, lots of people don't anymore so I included the commands

 

[SilentBoB]

I figured it out on my own I remembered the good ol'
Format a: /s
Thats how I made my startup disk.

 

[geoffkin]

I have a brand new computer here and the BIOS settings come up and it checks everything out. Then it just comes up with the message "Missing operating system"

Well I knew this, I want to install the OS now and have a BOOT Disk ready to go in the A/ Drive. But how do I make it use the boot disk? It doesn't seem to go to DOS for me....HELP!!!!

 

[RossGr]

You need to set BIOS boot sequence to enclude A: in the boot sequece.

 

[Mday]

the win98 startup disk is much more complete... i'd rather use that than the format a: /s

 

[Mday]

i can email you a complete disk if you want.

 

[Painman]

http://www.bootdisk.com

Here you can download images of bootdisks, and programs that make bootdisks for you, all flavors of Windows included... lotsa utilities too

-Pain