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As a new boy to ThinkPads, having just bought a s/h 600 with empty hard disk and CD drive, I've been trying to boot it from a CD copy of a Win 98 Start-up floppy without much joy (I want to install Win 98 on the HDD).
I've been into the "F1" Easy Set-up bit, but don't seem to be able to make a CD drive to appear as drive 1 in the boot sequence.
I guess I'm missing the point somewhere? - or would it be easier to wait till I get the floppy drive I've just ordered for it?
Any advice very welcome - thanks.
Thanks,
Robin

I have a TP600. After entering the cmos setup using f1, I was able to set it to boot from the cdrom drive. It is a section where one can reset the drives and click on the ones you start from first. It works for me. I was able to boot from the ReactOS cd and the eComStation cd. Perhaps your diskette copy is not working?

I had the exact same problem when i first got my 600E.

Took me over two hours (of going around in circles) then i worked out that the Reset must be clicked first!

After that - as previously posted - you can choose whatever boot order you want.

warwound

Thanks for your suggestions. I eventually found the problem, which was my lack of familiarity with creating the bootable CD - I naively thought you just copied the Start up floppy
All sorted now thanks,
Robin