that works to make a bootable cd but makes the system think that it is a floppy drive, it can't see the win98 install files.
so I did it the hard way formated the hard drive but it in my computer and copied the files accross then put it and a flopy drive in the first computer and booted from a floppy disk. thanks guys now just to find the correct video and odem drivers.
found some on driverguide,com but they didn't work. Sooner or later I will find them.
Thanks again for all the help.