Laptops :: booting from cd on IBM Thinkpad

Just received my DSL CD. Am having difficulty trying to get it on my old IBM Thinkpad 755cd puter (Pent equiv 40mb ram 1 gig hd).
It has both FDD and CD using the same bay.
I tried F1 at power-up to change the start sequence but to no avail.
Any suggestions?
TIA.
PS: Works fine on my desktop (P2 233mhz 320mb ram). Just have to figure out how to install it on my slave HD. Tried Suse 10.1 but it crawls. That's the reason for DSL.

Are you using the isolinux version?

Try the syslinux version, usually helps with older systems.

Thanks for quick response.
Newbie question: how do I get syslinux?.

You could download it in
damnsmalllinux.org > Download

But it seems like you got your original media from someone else?

Received the CD from John at DSL.org. (3.0.1). Will try to download syslinux if it is not too large. (Using dialup).
Thanks.

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