-> -> -> He has to be leaving something out. The only way I can
see it doing 
-> -> -> anything is if it is a Custom OEM CD that some
Manufacturers set up to be 
-> -> -> "Self Installing". I have never come across a
Generic Win98 CD that did 
-> -> -> that al l by itself. 
->  
-> -> Hewlett Packard OEM CD. 
->  
-> That could make things more understandable.  tweek their "OEM" CD's to be very fully automated. THey
just march off 
-> and leave you behind and you cannot stop it from Fdisking and Formatting 
-> until lit is too late 

You've got it.
That's EXACTLY what happened.
Toast in the blink of an eye.
Now Linux doesn't even recognize the drive :-(
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