[Ham-Computers] Change a Bootable Floppy to a Bootable CD

[Jim Hill]

Loren and Robert - Thanks for your responses.

Robert's answer solved my problem.  My computers were set to boot 
from the CD after checking the hard drive (or the array in the 
E510).  I'm down to one coaster and two boot CD's.

Jim

At 06:49 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Before throwing away your coasters, are you sure the machine is actually
>configured to boot from the CD drive?  By default, most are not, as it
>significantly increases the total normal boot time.
>
>
>In a message dated 10/31/2006 1:17:08 AM Central Standard Time,
>hro5-2 at cox.net writes:
> > My newest computer, a Dell E510, has a USB floppy which I can't
> > include as a bootable device.
> >
> > I have bootable floppies for Norton Ghost and Partition Magic, which
> > I would like to change to bootable CD-R's.  I'm primarily interested
> > in Ghost, which boots into PC DOS.
> >