Quote Originally Posted by gabriele
My computer seems to have a hardware problem that kills boots from CD. .....
Bloat has grown the kernel too large to fit on a floppy. Most people who can not set their BIOS to boot from CD are using a program like SBM or XOSL to boot the CD. What is this hardware problem that you speak of? If we know what the problem is we may be able to tell you how to work around it.