Do a search, find Rainy City, and from them, purchase Filevan. If the laptop has Windows 95 already, get the Filevan for Windows. If not, get the Filevan DOS.
Install this program in both the laptop, and another computer that does have a CD-ROM drive. Get a DCC cable, too. Available from Rainy City, or the Belkin item from a computer store. This cable has two male printer port plugs, and is used to transfer data from one computer to another via the printer ports.
Now, plug in the Win 98SE disk into your other computer, the one with a CD-ROM, and when the Win98SE disk autoruns, close it. Right click on the CD-ROM drive icon in My Computer, and click on Open. Copy ALL of these files into a folder, I suggest you name it WinTemp, in that computer.
Next, open Filevan in both computers, with the special cable connecting them via the printer ports, and send all of the files to the other computer.
Once this is done, and it will take a while, make sure you copy ALL files in there, you exit from Filevan on both computers.
I would reboot at this time.
Now, go to your laptop, open the Wintemp file, and start the Windows installation.