Just bought this laptop off of eBay and now I have a small question.

Since the floppy and CD-ROM are swappable.. how do I get Windows 98 installed onto a blank HD. I don't have the disks that would have originally come with the laptop, but I don't think they would be much help anyway because from I understand they were for Win 3.1.

If I boot from my 98 EBD and select boot with CD-ROM support that won't work because the CD-ROM isn't in the laptop, and thus it won't load the drivers.

Should I install DOS onto the HD, and then load the DOS CD-ROM drivers for my laptop from the IBM website?

If this is the best way to do it.. can someone send me a link to where I can get DOS? It's hard as hell to find.. or can someone just tell me what files I would need to get the laptop to boot to the c:\ prompt, and how to edit them to do so, if editing is needed?

Sorry for the long post, and the most likely stupid questions.. I'm just confused.. had the CD-ROM or floppy been external I would have no problem.

When I first got the laptop It booted to c:\ but with no CD-ROM support, because I had yet to install the drivers.. I didn't install the drivers until after I formatted the drive and lost the ability to boot to c:\ this is why I need help.

Thank you for ANY help that you guys can give me.. I appreciate it a lot.