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. >I finally put it all together: Aopen Ax3s-U mobo, 256 M crucial ram, 933 PIII >socket 370, Plextor 16/10/40a burner, IBM Deskstar 40G 60GXP, ATI Radeon 64. >After running IBM's Disk Manager 2000 to set up the drive it wont 'see' >98SE's CD disk as a bootable disk. Anything I might be missing? I used the >boot floppy disk that came with 98SE full install. Thanks in advance. > > -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com