I wish to thank everyone who has responded to this issue.  I have resolved
the problem with booting from a floppy, as has Kathy, and thought I would
share it with the list.  This one will be filed for future use!  Much thanks
to Stanislav Rabinovich.  Curious...

>Try to create bootable floppy disk manually:
> 1) go to machine with w98
> 2)check viruses, especially boot-viruses!
> 3)remove write protection and insert your floppy disk
> 4)Click Start-Run, then type: format a: /s
>
> This will put 3 files in the correct order:
> io.sys
> msdos.sys
> command.com
>
> The 4th file drvspace.bin could be deleted if you
> are not planning use disk compression.
>
> Be careful, do not type "format c:" !!!
>
> 4)copy fdisk.exe from c:\windows\command to your floppy
> 5)go to your new computer and insert your floppy.
> 6)reboot the system from floppy
> 7) if you see A:\> then type fdisk
> 8) fdisk your hd and do not forget to make it Active.
> 9)reboot system again and after seeing A:\> type format c: /s
>
> now I think you can reboot your system from w98 cd and start the
> installation.


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