Compaq - Booting from a CD?

[Joe[x86]]

I have an older compaq, one of their All-In-One, iMac-ish ones. I've tried everything to boot from a CD. On the front, it says Compaq Presario CDS 520. I've played Music CD's in Windows 3.11 on it, I know the CD drive works. I've booted JoeOS disks, so I know the bootorder works. Any suggestions?

[MyndFyre]

Booting is a function of the BIOS; you'll have to edit your BIOS configuration to boot from the CD.

Otherwise you could try Grub?  Doesn't that support booting from a CD after starting to boot from the hard drive?

[Hitmen]

If you can boot from floppys you can use a boot manager to boot from cd. I've used this before when I had the problem.

[Joe[x86]]

Booting is a function of the BIOS; you'll have to edit your BIOS configuration to boot from the CD.

Compaq went ahead and made their BIOS Setup user friendly. Ugh!

Otherwise you could try Grub?  Doesn't that support booting from a CD after starting to boot from the hard drive?

I've never really used it much, but IIRC, installing it is more of a hassel then a gain.

you could just use something like Daemon Tools or something that has an option to do that. i personally use Ahead Nero and so far it works great for me

This isn't exactly a current piece of equipment.

If you can boot from floppys you can use a boot manager to boot from cd. I've used this before when I had the problem.

That looks VERY impressive! Thanks!

[Joe[x86]]

A:\>dir

  Volume in drive A has no label
  Volume Serial Number is 30AB-547E
  Directory of A:\

CWSDPMI  EXE
SBMINST  EXE

A:\>SMBINST
Bad command or file name

-sigh-

EDIT:

-sigh- @ DOS not having spell check =p

EDIT: Its installed. Disk read error 0x01. I'll check it out on the Presario (I tested on the prolinea, the presario has a built in monitor, ugh!) later.