On 19 Jun, 06:26, two_whee...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently acquired a Dell PowerEdge 2300. The bios in this
> particular machine will only allow me to boot from floppy or hard
> drive. The CDrom drive is not bootable. It's very frustrating. I
> tried the Dell forums first, but it seems there is no way to boot from
> this CDrom.

Why not open the box and plug in a separte CD drive? Or most
PowerEdge's can network boot: or can you use a USB boot device?

It's become increasingly difficult to fit a fully equipped kernel and
installation tools into a floppy, which is partly why they've faded
out of use so much.