I forgot to leave out the disclaimer "some" Zip Drives.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q194946/
You can't with a parallel port zip drive.
(I have more of that type....)

                  Rick Glazier

From: "David Gillett" <
>   It has been some time now, but I have installed 98SE from a ZIP drive on a
> couple of occasions,  It hadn't occurred to me that newer OS versions might
> not permit that; I believe I've installed 2K Pro from a hard drive
> partition....
>
>
> Richard Glazier wrote:
> > I think I read once that Windows will not allow an install
> > from a Zip Disk.

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