[Techtalk] Simply Hardware

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On Sunday 18 August 2002 00:27, Andrew wrote:

> 	I am building my first box from scratch, it is together, no
> floppy was included, thinking it would not be needed, now, how do I
> boot my new machine off the Mandrake CD?  Are there jumper setting on
> the CD drive? Or do I need to find the long lost "Mandrake boot
> floppy"?

hi Andrew,

i usually find that i can boot okay from the Mandrake CD if i go into the BIOS 
and set my boot order to CDRom, A, C  (i'm using an Aopen bios)... 
as long as you have CDRom booting first it should work fine...

hth
miriam


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