Greetings. I have an "older" Dell laptop (Latitude LM, 133MHz, 40 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD) that has a stale/corrupted version of W2K installed (will only boot in safe mode, otherwise it locks up and crashes). I basically just want to install Puppy or Knoppix, but the BIOS does not support booting from the CDROM. Additionally, it doesn't have a floppy, so my options are limited.
I originally attempted to install SMB within safe mode, but kept getting a "failed read/write error". I had better success getting PLoP to run from the Windows boot menu. However, when I select "CDROM" from the menu, I get a variety of errors. The first error is usually:
QuoteLOADING CDROM DRIVER
CD-ROM CDR_N110
WAITING FOR THE DRIVE...
CD NOT BOOTABLE
If I hit <ESC> to return to the main menu and attempt the boot again, even with new media, I get:
QuoteLOADING CDROM DRIVER
NO CDROM FOUND
The media is bootable, verified on other machines, and the CDROM is working as I have used it to load tools on the machine.
My assumption is that the driver built into plpbtldr.bin is incompatible with my drive. Is there a method to load other drivers (i.e., OAKCDROM.SYS) that Windows normally uses?
BTW, I'm using the instructions here (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#wininst) to deploy PLoP.
Thanks.