|reference to microsecond is a case of semantics
| John G. Hanson
|
I use hyperbole too sometimes.  They invented the smilie for such occasions.  8-)

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|In addition I tried using my diskette for boot up with equal lack of success.
|
Did you tell CMOS Setup[1] 
what you wanted it to do?

|I have both 98 and 98se cd's and tried both to no avail.
|
Again: Did you tell CMOS Setup 
what you wanted it to do?
Some (many?) Windows Install CDs are not bootable.
In that case, you usually have to boot to the floppy.

It sounds like you have DOS installed on the HDD.
That COULD be good; if, however, the install process fails,
it would be a Good Thing(tm) to be able to boot to a floppy.
I suggest you assure that you can 
do that before proceeding.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1146345403
http://web.archive.org/web/20060518121639/http://home.i-plus.net/jtmurphy/setup.htm


This is a Clean Install(tm) procedure that doesn't suck too bad: 
cache of http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.php

"Boot from"[2] on that page should read "Boot to".

It sounds like **you** can skip past FDISK and FORMAT.


[1] Often (erroneously) 
called "BIOS".

[2] I blame this on M$.  Microsoft SUCKS.

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