I think your computer is looking for one of those "system restore" CD's, which is not a pure Win 98.2 CD.  It is an OEM thing that simply restores your hard drive to what it looked like when it left the factory.  If you no longer have that, which is a good thing considering how useless those restore disks are, you are stuck doing it the old-fashioned way, a completely clean, naked install of Win 98.2 using a floppy startup disk and asking for CD support.


><< My recollection is that the Win 98.2 CD is not a bootable disk. It is not
>shown as an alternative to using the startup floppy disk. >>
>-- Thanks Joseph I guess thats true. I just wish there would be some
>consistency in the land of computers and software! It comes with a 'bootable'
>floppy but the system keeps looking for a CD from the IBM HD setup disk! I
>guess they werent informed so now I have to figure out how to unformat this
>HD and use a bootable floppy with fdisk on it?
>thanks for taking the time
>
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