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in Bios it states that the CD-ROM is not installed
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Some
older machines/bios' would not list the (Atapi) CDROM in the bios, however during power up they would list the CD during the POST. ie; "Found: Panasonic G-4800-HL CDROM"
If you have a floppy drive, the machine may be in the above catagory.
Is your CDROM drive a standard EIDE or a SCSI/SATA device?
Since you have a floppy drive, check the hardware aspects of the CDROM with a Win98 Bootdisk.
Boot with a
Win98SE Boot Disk* choosing "With CDROM Support" and check the drive(s) in MSDOS.
Insert a Windows CD into the drive(s) and at the
A:\> prompt, type in
dir/a/-p %cdrom%: (or
dir/a/-p x: (where x: is the device letter assigned to the drive(s) during the boot process) and hit Enter. If you get a directory listing, the hardware aspect of the drive(s) is OK, and the problem lies elsewhere.
*The above bootdisk image file is a self extracting file and has to be executed (run) from a running Windows machine in order to create the actual startup diskette on one of your floppy disks. (This image file produces the same bootdisk which 98SE creates.) This downloaded image file will format the floppy disk to ensure its integrity, write the files to the disk, then verify the file write, so it'll take a minute or three to create the bootdisk.
Ensure the floppy drive is set as the first boot device in the
bios.
NOTE: When you boot a machine with this boot floppy, it creates a RAMDRIVE in system memory to contain DOS system tools/drivers. Thus it will move your "normal" CDROM device/drive letter "up" one level. (If your CDROM is normally E: it will be F: when booting with this bootdisk.)
The path to the found CDROM will be set with the bootfiles, so entering
A:\>f:\setup is the same as entering
A:\>setup at the
A:\> prompt. There is no need to include the cdrom drive letter. The CDROM device letter will be assigned near the end of the floppy boot process, right after MSCDEX is loaded.
