[Herefordshire] Laptop Q

[EdwardFW at aol.com]

Re a suitable laptop to try Linux on, I realise that I may be reducing the 
range of options too much with a requirement for a "proper" floppy disk drive 
(as opposed to one tacked on by USB, after Linux or Windows has booted)

If a PC has a CD ( / DVD) drive and the BIOS supports booting from it (which 
I assume they all do now) 

Then if I have a CD which has had suitable files and utilities burnt onto it 
(e.g. for DOS:  Io.sys  Command.com  Msdos.sys  and then  fdisk.exe  
format.com  etc. etc.)

Would I have any problems booting with this CD and doing with it the things I 
would have done with a bootable floppy (assuming that the CD had the relevant 
files on it's little boot like a floppy area, or that the relevant files 
could be accessed elsewhere on the CD, or a hard drive?

Please excuse my ignorance and thanks in anticipation

Edward FW
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