ok, nevermind, i straightened it all out, just took a lot of playing around and moving crap all over the place and reinstalling and some other stuff i don't even remember...but it all works now, thankfully...
Originally posted by Krsqk: AFAIK, you don't even need two CD drives. When it said it couldn't find my old Windows installation (on my blank system), I took out the Win98 CD, put in the Win 3.11 CD, browsed to the Setup.exe file, and it worked fine. Of course, it wanted me to switch back to the Win98 CD.
That is how the windows upgrade disks are set up. You don't have to have the old OS installed, you can just have the CD for it. There is really now fooling involved.