USB CD/DVD support for DOS

[Alphanumeric]

I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked (until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)

I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine, but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the <300MB of win98SE
instead.

[Hot-text]

If you are able to Put the Win98se cd in C:\
it will install at boot ... for win98SE CD is not like the 2000s and Xp
CDs that will install the USB DVD drives for the CD first
But win 98 install USB DVD drives after reboot, so if you install win 98
from USB DVD after reboot it will not fine the USB DVD to install the USB
DVD drives
That why you have to put the win98 cd on the Hard Drive and install from
there!

Post by Alphanumeric
I am trying to install my old win98SE on my eeepc 4G which has no internal
CD/DVD drive but DOS will not recognise my USB DVD drive. I have tried
copying the CD files onto an SDHC card and installing, which worked (until I
restarted) when I was met with "Disk I/O error". I have read that for USB
printers on XP "NET USE LPT1" is supposed to work. Is this the same for USB
CD/DVD drives? (net use cdrom!?)
I have already used XP on this computer previously, which works fine, but it
takes up most of my 4GB SSD space, so i'm going with the <300MB of win98SE
instead.