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Posted: Aug. 09 2008,09:59 QUOTE
Sure you can boot the CD from the DSL boot floppy. It would be better than from DOS.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ppy.img

You can write that to a floppy from windows using rawrite, or from a running DSL system.

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Posted: Aug. 09 2008,11:55 QUOTE
Thanks, I created one from apps-tools-create bootfloppy on a running DSL machine.

It all boots up fine from that.

This is the first computer I've had to do that on. I thought it was for very old computers, and was surprised as this is a 2000 machine with a decent spec for its time.

What is the reason for requiring a bootfloppy in this case ?

Thanks.
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Posted: Aug. 09 2008,13:53 QUOTE
Crappy bios not booting standard CD's properly.
Some Dells are known to do that, even as new as 2004..

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Posted: Aug. 09 2008,17:41 QUOTE
You could see if there are any bios updates for your motherboard, should you want to investigate this further.
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Posted: Aug. 09 2008,19:24 QUOTE
Yes, unfortunately it was a special motherboard made for Time who went bust and there aren't any Bios updates for it. :(
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