Evening, I've pressed F2 and went to setup utility. The only choices to use are: 1) Diskette First; and 2) Hard Disk Only. The "Diskette First" option tries to use the 3.5 floppy drive. I really need the CD drive selected. I'm trying to install Linux...which I already have on a CD. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks...

Hey there
press F2 to go the BIOS and check only Floppy to boot. If possible move it to first.
Usually a rescue program is on a floppy, however, most current OS's are not on a floppy.
Maybe DSL os. What OS do you have from floppy?

F12 and choose cd drive

It's not working. I don't have a new Latitude. I have a XPi CD. Perhaps 8 years old.

Suggestions?

Then you might need this floppy
http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

Good morning:

As suggested, I've downloaded the file "sbootmgr.dsk" and used F12...but my Latitude is not accepting this.  Receiving 2 messages: "Invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key";  or  "No boot sector on hard disk - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility"

Background: The problem I'm having is the Latitude XPi CD has no operating system...and I'm trying to install Linux, via a CD.  But the Latitude's "boot sequence" is only "Hard Disk Only"; or "Diskette First" (which is the 3.5 floppy drive).  The Latitude does not boot using the CD drive.   Question: How can I install Linux via the CD?   Thanks.

Yo, smart boot manager goes on a floppy, google around for a way of getting it onto a disk. Once it's on the disk, change the bios to boot off the floppy. Smart boot manager will then give you a simple menu, from which you can boot off cd. I should mention that the default installation of most modern linux distros don't do too well unless you have at least 256MB of memory. If you've got less, I'd either upgrade the memory (www.crucial.com) or check out Xfce (www.xfce.org).