installation boot up sooo close

[xxispawn01xx]

i have a 100mhz 64mb ram and 1.6gb hd packard bell wat would u guys reccomend the best linux system be for this (i like redhat the most so far) and see the thing is........... i inserted the cd in but it wont boot, the computers really old and i heard that older computers have great trouble with this, anyways i went to the bios setup and i saw that wthere was an option for the booting sequence it has drive a(floppy) and drive c(hard disk) but no drive D(cdrom)!!!!wat do i do?
i have a 266mhz desktop which ran very well for its speed, notice the past tense i was using it about 3 months ago the monitor blinked and the computer went out wat do u guys think happend ???? i checked the connections and all nothing....

[homey]

I think your Pack Bell machine could be a problem. They used proprietary cdroms which need to have the drivers loaded before they will work. Even if you do get it going, I doubt that things will go very well getting everything to work right. Between both of your computers, you may have good boat anchor material.

[xxispawn01xx]

i replaced the cdrom a while ago with a newer cd rom and wat do u mean about the boat dockin? can u help me with the problemat hand please

[mdwatts]

If your bios does not support booting from cd, then you have no choice but to create the bootdisks.

This thread just up from yours will explain about creating the bootdisks (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92287).