Trying to boot on a laptop with swap-out FD/CDROM?

[eyez]

I have an IBM laptop with those ultrabay hot swap drives. I'm trying to install w2k (or any OS for that matter) from the boot floppy, then the computer ask for the cdrom. Well...when I pull out the FD and put in the CDROM, it wouldn't recognize it. Is there any other way to install a new OS?

 

[Pederv]

Have you tried booting from the CD?

 

[eyez]

It would not boot from CD.

 

[Apex]

Are you sure? My T21, A21m, and A21p all booted to the multibay DVD-Rom or CD-Rom just fine.

 

[kindlr]

When it boots hold down F12 I believe it is (it should say "Hold FXX to choose temporary boot device" and choose the CD-ROM drive. I had no trouble doing that with any Linux distro nor did anyone I know who installed XP on their T22s.