Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely
ancient laptop if it doesn't.
It's not a Dell Insprion is it?
What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel
port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the
drive....
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] installing 8.1
I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble
installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy
drive and
CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't
allow
me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at
once I
can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go
into dos
or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please
could
someone reply and tell me the name of the file.
Tom.
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