Problem installing Win ME on laptop

I replaced the hard drive on a 5 yr old Dell laptop, partioned and formated, which I think worked as far as I can tell.

Now I need to install windows ME, but I the laptop can only have cdrom OR floppy in at a time so I have to swap the floppy and disk drives. I tried to follow directions I found, put oakcd*.sys on the hard drive as explained here: http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajgd.html

Problem is, when I get to the point where I restart the computer with the CD-ROM in place, it still says Invalid system disk replace the disk and then press any key.

Did I do something wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

(Couldn`t bring up that thread for some reason)

Have a look through this thread.

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/software/windows/winme/install/inst-print.html

Might be what youve got already, but there should be a section to show how to copy all the files needed from cd-rom onto your hard drive. So then you wont need to use the cd rom, just the floppy to boot.

 

The boot order is listed as:
Diskette Drive, Internal HDD, Cd/DVD/CD-RW Drive, in that order

 

Ok, still not getting anywhere. So... I did that but can't get past the step where it says to run set up. It says Invalid system disk replace the disk and then press any key. Maybe I'm not seeing what I am supposed to do.