Ben B wrote:
a whole bunch of stuff I couldn't read

sorry, Ben, but I find the "" quoting to be much more readable. In
response to what I could glean though...

Modern PCs are bootable from CDs in much the same fashion as they are
from hard-drives or floppy disks. For a fresh OS installation, you would
either boot directly from a "bootable" CD (one which contains booting
files as well as data files), or boot from the FD and then run the
Install or Setup program that's on the CD. The last option is what WinME
Installs use.

Rick