trouble formatting/ booting new build

[mcslack]

howdy. i just built my first system and can't get it to boot. specs:

ecs k7s5a mobo
athlon xp 1.4
dvdrom
floppy
20 gig HD (new)

bios sees all drives and set up was a breeze. i'm trying to boot with a win98 SE foppy with fdisk on it to partition the HD. i've set it to boot from floppy but every time i try i get the same message:
"searching for boot record from floppy..not found
searching for boot record from CDROM..not found
searching for boot record from IDE-0..OK

invalid system disk
replace the desk, and then press any key"

i can't find the any key - just kidding.

i've got three different boot disks from three different sources and even burned one to a CD and tried booting from that. nothing has worked. anybody have any ideas?

thanks in advance. i love this site

[EzyStvy]

Duplicate post. Continued in the Win98 fourm:

http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48935

[glc]

There's also one going in Assembly, that's the best place.