Hello Rick,

I appreciate your persistence. But the problem I am having
is that none of us use quite the same terms to describe
something. If three people, savvy to one degree or another
and speaking a common language, address the problems of a
single person who is not savvy and who has not the
language, in this case computing, it is baffling. But I
recognise the essential goodwill inherent in this
newsgroup. My thanks, Rick.
Ben.
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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
.