Unless you burn your backup from an iso image you created from the original, it isn't going to be CD bootable. If you have a floppy drive it doesn't need to be. Use any flavor of dos boot with cd-rom driver support, ms-dos,95,98 etc and change directory to the cd. some bootdisk.com boot floppies with ramdrive will shift all the driveletters up one letter. One (my favorite) doen't have ramdrive and changes only the cd-rom to R:\.
Once you get to the cd type dir and see if you see setup.exe. If so, just type setup and hit enter. That should fire up the installer and 98 will take over from there.
First chance I get, I'm backing up my $300 (original replacement cost) w2kPro full version CD and putting the original in my safety deposit box. I'd sure hate to have to replace it. I got a great deal from a friend for $70. Half of what it's going for on ebay.
