reinstall WIN 98 on laptop NO CD drive!?

one sunny morn I started my laptop to the error message that it could not locate .
So I oh so cleverly moved that file from a friends laptop to my own excellent specimen via floppy, in DOS mode.
This triggered multiple other errors, ending in an message.
I only have a floppy drive, and when I try to run from the boot disc it says,

I don’t think I have any CDROM device drivers?? any way I can use this piece of #@!?*# ever agian??
Safe mode does not work.