Feverishly pounding upon a keyboard c__bennett@NOSmsn.com typed:
> I have both a downloaded copy and the CD from DSL's site. I have changed
> the BIOS to boot from CD. Have also made a boot floppy from the DSL cd,
> and changed the bios back to boot from A. Unable to so far get to work. I
> doubt that there is anything wrong with software or pc, got to be me not
> doing something.
>
> Running: Win 98 SE (fully patched) on a P166 mmx, 3 gig hd, 64 meg edo
> ram, system.
>
> Boots back into 98 every time. Sees DSL in cd drive "e", but won't open.
>
> Suggestions please....

Bad CDROM drive?

I put Debian Etch on board a similar laptop using netinstall and making
only a minimal (non-GUI) install. Then added xorg and xfce4. No GDM,
GNOME or OpenOffice. Abiword works fine as an editor but doesn't provide
what MS Office doesn't provide Linux users - MS office document support.
What I've done, when required, is open MS docs on the Desktop machine
with OpenOffice, covert to a new RTF and put it on the lappy with an USB
drive. Can do XLS with Gnumeric easily. That's a small "cost" for having
saved money by re-using "ancient" hardware.

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