I got a good one for ya! WIN 98 help

[Silfo]

Here it is:

I have a kinda old laptop sitting around my house and I wanted to clear the thing off(it has a load of driver problems I can't seem to fix) and start over from new.

So I went into DOS I typed in FORMAT C: and I successfully cleared the thing off.

Then I made up a floppy boot disk for 98 and popped it into the A: drive.

it all seemed to work fine. In dos I went to the E: drive (for some reason the boot disk chages your drive names) and typed in DIR and it showed the 98 CD in my drive and then I typed SETUP.

Now, one would think that would have installed 98 but for some reason the CD won't respond. It can read it but thats as far as it goes. I can't look in any of the directories on the CD or run any of the EXE.

I'm stuck....

A little help please.

Thanks

[Murf]

Welcome

Is this CD a copy of Windows 98? If so that could be the problem, copies can get corrupt. If you used a Windows 98 bootdisk, which I assume you did as it assigned E: as the CDROM, and you said you could read it. At the A; prompt type the following:

c: (hit <enter>)
mkdir Win98 (hit <enter>)
a: (hit <enter>)
copy *.* c:\win98 (hit <enter>)

Once done type the following:

C: (hit <enter>)
cd\win98 (hit<enter>)
setup (hit<enter>)

Note: If this version of windows 98 you are trying to install it is a upgrade version, you have to install within Windows, it will not install in DOS.

[Silfo]

c: (hit <enter>)
mkdir Win98 (hit <enter>)
a: (hit <enter>)
copy *.* c:\win98 (hit <enter>)

Once done type the following:

C: (hit <enter>)
cd\win98 (hit<enter>)
setup (hit<enter>)

All of it worked but the last step. When i typed in setup the same thing happened that happens when i do it at the E: prompt "Bad command or file name".

its SO weird casue I can read the CD fine I just can't interact with it.