text: If you have the win98 CD you can boot straight from it just go into your bios and set it up to boot from CD first to get into your bios press one of the keys F1, F2, Del, delete or F10, F11 ,F12 or Insert, just after you turn on the computer right after the memory test press one of them keys, normally the computer will say press F2 for setup/bios\nthen go through the menus and find the boot option/order and change it so you have the CD ROM to boot first then your hard rive then make sure you save the settings and exit and have the CD in the drive before it boots the computer and it should prompt you to boot from CD then follow the prompts from there good luck