New CD ROM on clean build PC

[2800CC]

Hi all,

I am going to build my first PC tomorrow and wanted a little help as I can see some disasters coming up.

I'm gonna put Win 98 on a new HD and then upgrade it to XP Pro (I have access to a free disc hence the pain of upgrading)

Anyway I don't have any 98 startup discs and while I can make a MS-DOS boot disk my new IDE CD-ROM won't be picked up as a drive will it ?

From memory I know mscdex.exe is something to do with it?
Should I get the CD-ROM drivers on a floppy and load them to the new formatted HD ?

Little help please, once I get the CD-ROM up and running I'll be laughing all the way to XP pro

Cheers

[mike_w]

The IDE CD-ROM should be picked up straight away on modern motherboards, just change the boot order in the BIOS.