Bill Tetens wrote: > I forgot to answer that one. yes it is configured as the primary boot > device and the hard disk is second and the floppy is third. Does the CD > need any drivers or the like to read the CD? If I were in your position I would see if anything boots from this CD drive. Knoppix would be an obvious choice, but an old Windows CD would do. Also, do you have a floppy drive? If you do, I would get tomsrtbt - Linux on a floppy - and see if this can see the files on your CD drive. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland