I just had a found myself installing on a system that also will not boot
from CDROM.  Rather than take my own suggestion I looked around at the
available options.  I found that Mandrake 7.2 (and who knows what other
distros) have an option to boot from dos.  There is a script on the CD
at /dosutils/autoboot/autoboot.bat  You can run it from either dos or
win9x.  There is also a autoboot program that will create boot disks for
you.  I used this autoboot option and it worked great.

Eric

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Eric Thelin                                          erict@aztechbiz.com
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