So... I reformatted

[MrMoo]

It's been awhile since I had to do this...

Is the cd bootable? Is it a legit MS cd? If so, when your computer is booting you'll have the option of going into the BIOS. Probably have to press F12 or something similar. Go into the BIOS and look for something referencing the boot order. Make sure the CD drive is before HDD. Save the BIOS settings and reboot from the cd.

When you boot off of the floppy, does it stop with a "A:\" prompt? You'll need to change to the drive letter assigned to your cd-rom and run the install program from there. Don't remember whats it's called. Install.exe? Setup.exe? i386.exe? Something like that.