Laptops :: bios doesn't support cd boot

I have an old compaq lte5300, that I want to use DSL on. The bios doesn't support CD booting, just HD and floppy. The floppy has to be swapped out to install the cd drive and I doubt it's hot swappable. Is there an extension for one of the boot managers, grub, lilo... that has extensions to boot from a cd that I could install? The laptop currently has win98 on it.

Semi-Official solution from the WIKI:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies

My 2nd solution:
I prefer using a dos boot-disk with CD-ROM support and loadlin.

Pro: Easy and common.
Con: Limited Functionality.

My 3rd solution:
I prefer using a linux boot-disk with FTP server and fdisk+ext2 support.

Pro: Strong & Versatile.
Con: Hard and uncommon.

I wound up installing SBM on the HD, it has an option to boot from CD. It Works!

yep smart boot manager works you should als see some post out there about booting without cdrom should help

original here.