easy 98 install

Hi all, I used to have a floppy with a virtual CD ROM drive utility. It was written by a company called Oal Data or Oak technology, Oak something.
I used it to install Win98 on machines bought from a government surplus place. The hard drives are wiped clean of all data even dos so I would put in the floppy and and the CD in the CD drive and boot to this floppy. It would have me name the phantom CD drive it was about to create 1 past the machines actual drives. ie if I had B(floppy) C (hard drive) and D (CD ROM) I would name it "E" then change directories to E:/ and Type setup.exe. Win 98 would install from there. This would allow me to install win98 to a formatted hard drive from the CD ROM drive without any sort of OS installed.
Needless to say I have lost or lent this floppy and would like to know if there is a site I can download another copy. ever hear of such a thing?
Thanks in advance Dan (johnsdp)

 

This sounds like the standard Win98 Start Up Floppy, get the file for 98SE OEM from below.
Bootdisk
Double click the downloaded file with a floppy in the drive, and it will be created for you.
This floppy creates a Ramdrive in memory, and this is assigned the letter D:. Because of this, the CD drive is usually assigned the letter E. There will be a message before the A:\> appears giving you the letter assignment.
During the bootup process of this floppy, and if you chose the With CD ROM support, you may see something about the Oakcdrom.sys file loading. Is this what you mean?

 

markp62 makes a very good suggestion about getting the 98SE sud.

It is far better then the useless 95 SUD.

BillyBob

 

The Win 98 is actually self-booting. Just set the BIOS to have it boot from CD.

 

This is true but;

Booting to the 98SE SUD and letting it load and setup the CDROM and then Typing CDROM letter:\Win98\Setup

for example D:\Win98\setup. What letter the CDROM will be depneds on the number of HDs ( or partitions ) that exist.

Produces a much better and user controlable setup than just running setup from the CD.

Actually this goes for any version of Windows including 95 if you do have a 98 sud.

Better yet is to copy the contents of the Win98 folder to the HD and if possible on a partition other than C:/ Then just point to it and run setup.

So the install command could still be D:\Win98\Setup

But even if the setup files are on the HD it is best to boot to the floppy.

BillyBob