putting a copy of your os install on the hard drive through the os

[geoscomp]

to do it from inside windows, you need a cd drive attached..put your windows cd in the drive and copy the win98 folder from it to the root of the c drive.

then, anytime you need to access files..just point it to C:/win98

[Damned Angel]

The industry OEM standard was to put the cab files in c:\windows\options\cabs


Once you have installed from a location on your hard drive, windows should never ask for the cd again as the install path in the registry will be pointing to the directory you stored the setup files in.