Yes - Boot from floppy and set the hard drive up to support a boot with
CD-ROM support. Swap the devices, boot to hard drive and install from CD.
A little more tedious perhaps but easier to follow as a step-by-step
procedure, and easier to stop, review and back up if required.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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If you don't mind, Jeff, just so I'm sure what's what. This laptop could
not boot from the CD drive, but could boot from the interchangeable floppy
drive? So sufficient stuff had to be done from the floppy boot to make the
HD bootable with CDROM support?

Or were bootable CD solutions viable, just not as convenient?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
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Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"pemo" wrote in message
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jeff,
that did it. the link to the description /walk-thru, and the
instructions were perfect. thanks again