Program that copies OS files from a CD to floppies?

[Bob]

My son recently purchased from a friend an older laptop
(Gateway/solo, PII, 266) that does not have a CD ROM
drive. I need to install an operating system that will
run best on this old laptop. Is there a downloadable
program that copies the OS files from a CD to floppies?
That is the only way I can install a new OS. I own WIN98,
ME, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro.

Thanks

 

[Grant]

My son recently purchased from a friend an older laptop
(Gateway/solo, PII, 266) that does not have a CD ROM
drive. I need to install an operating system that will
run best on this old laptop. Is there a downloadable
program that copies the OS files from a CD to floppies?
That is the only way I can install a new OS. I own WIN98,
ME, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro.

Thanks

I don't know of any program to do that. But if the laptop has an OS on it
already, and a network card, and a large enough hard drive, you could copy the
files from the win98 directory on the 98 cd to the hard drive, and install from
there.