Originally posted by crooked_letter@Dec 6 2002, 04:20 AM
how do i boot from the CD?
Probably like this:
o Check the manual for correct procedure. You need to boot the machine and during the bootprocess force the machine to go into the BIOS' setup rather than continue and boot into the operative system. There in BIOS you have to tell the machine about in which order it should look for bootable mediums. Most probably for the moment it checks the floppydrive to see if there is any floppy in it. That is the reason you can boot from the floppy if a bootable floppy is inserted. If no floppy is found it looks for a harddrive. This can be altered to a sequence like CD-floppy-hardrive or something similar, the CD first in the chain.
o Then reboot with the CD inserted and... you are booting from your XP-CD.
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