Need help with new installation.

[algae]

Hi all,
I'm helping a friend with her old Compaq Presario 1235. It was running Win 98 VERY slowly so I decided to reformat and reinstall Win 98 SE as it is probably loaded with spyware, etc. I formatted the drive, created a Win 98 SE bootdisk, booted to the floppy, and later set the bios to boot to the cd rom where I put the Win 98 SE Cd. Upon rebooting nothing is happening. The cd rom isn't spinning up and if I change directory within dos, I still can't get the machine to read from the cd rom. When I booted to the floppy I chose "boot with CD rom support". I figured this would go smoothly so I didn't give much thought to it prior to wiping the drive. Am I missing something here? Tia for any help.
Gary

 

[TheGreenGoblin]

Is the bootdisk assigning a drive letter to the CD rom ? You don't need to set the bios to boot from CD rom , in fact I'm not even sure that all 98 CD roms were bootable.

Set your bios to boot off A: , then C:. Boot with the bootdisk and make sure it assigns a drive letter to your cd rom. You should be able to browse the cd , go to the Win98 directory and run setup.exe from the dos prompt.

I assume the CD rom was working fine before the attempted install ? And the CD you are using is readable on other pc's ?