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Originally Posted by oldtimer
You have to be kidding,The cd is just files to be extracted to a
Hard Drive. 
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Nope, not kidding.
I am talking about the first restart that the Win98 Setup makes you go through after it's copied butt loads of files from the CD. "Please remove all floppy disks and reboot your machine" or something like that with a 30 second countdown to an automatic reboot. Normally, the CD stays in the drive and the workstation will boot off that during this restart and continue with detecting hardware, making the registry, etc.
I can copy the CD to my 2GB thumb drive, but where would I go from there?
I can't boot off the thumb drive because the stupid !@#$ BIOS lacks a setting for booting off USB. I need the driver that's currently on my floppy.
If I boot off my floppy, then running setup on the CD from a DOS prompt doesn't do much except run through the entire setup process that I just went through.
If I boot off the CD, the drivers on the floppy aren't loaded, and setup just goes "Huh?" because it can't find the thumb drive because the drivers that are on the floppy and not on the CD haven't been loaded.