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I have a 760CD and recently picked up a 385ED from Ebay for ten bucks. Neither machine would boot from CD nor would Smart Boot Mgr work on them. I could install Win98 using a boot disk and the MS CD, but couldn't even read the contents of any CD I had burned. As pointed out by phool@round, on this board, commercial CD's are pressed, not burned. To install [censored] Small Linux, simply buy the DSL CD, and download the DSL boot floppy.

This worked flawlessly on the 385ED which has 128MB memory, but the 760CD with 64MB only starts to install before the kernel panics. Here, I'm trying to install BasicLinux3.50 from two floppies.

Technically they aren't "pressed", it's a slang term I use for the thinner and brighter media that commercial Cd's are made from.
Just clarifying...... I've actually had some luck with the cheaper brands that sell for $10 bucks a hundred, you know, the cheap ones. Burned at 1x they've worked. They don't have the longevity of the better brands but they work in a pinch to get a linux OS onto my machine.