Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> > I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT!!!! Surely
>you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers
>on it to enable you to get to a point where you
>
> Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old machine, you should be
> able to go into the BIOS and tell it to be able to boot from a CD-ROM.
> Once done, the machine will come up with the Mandrake CD and DOS never
> enters the picture.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
Agreed Larry, Why should he need it?
I'm from the old school which goes back to the lowest common
denominator.
I had the same problem with an installation on an associates' machine.
There
was no way the CD could be read - it was quite ok in several other
machines
on the same site and from the same manufacturer. Once we 'got rid of'
the
opsys variables induced in/by the existing operating system we
succeeded.
These are so many variables out there, and apart from that it seems just
plain silly to attempt to install an opsys from within another one
particularly when dealing with all the variables involved in Microsoft
products. Apart from that I wonder how many BIOS variations have to be
coped with as well.
For my part I can't recall if the age of the effected mobo was mentioned
as I've lost the beginning of the thread.
Cheers
John
