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Originally Posted by hwm54112
98 requires a floppy to load the cd rom drivers and start the install process, then it hands off to the cd rom and this article install win98tells you how. I've only done an upgrade in recent years, so there may be a way without a floppy that tumbleweed knows. Are these upgrade disks you have? |
the very first round of windows 98se cd's were non bootable, from what i've seen. it came in a cardboard box, with a cd in a paper sleeve, and a floppy.
as far as booting without a floppy, it's similar to slipstreaming a service pack into an XP cd, using a boot floppy to make an image of the boot system, and then using the 98se cd to add in the install files to make a new cd that boots with "el-torrito floppy emulation" and then contains the win 98 cd's contents like normal on the cd track.
because of the rules we have here at the forum, i don't think i can explain more about it, since it would in fact help someone pirate win98.
other than that, i don't know of a way to boot without a floppy on those generation 1 win98 cd's.