On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: > > > > is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... > > if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm > > on cd1 and create a bootfloppy > > > > HTH ronald > > I think I read somewhere that some older systems wouldn't boot from > a cd if the drive was mounted as slave. Could that be your > problem? > > OTOH, I have been working on a friend's M$ box, where I had the > greatest difficulty persuading it to boot from a cd, so there may > be other possibilities. > > Anne
I reset the jumper on the new cdrom to master and installed. Everything worked fine. 9.2 installed ok and i am downloading the updates. Thanks to everyone for their responses and help. Best wishes to everyone for the upcoming new year. john
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