Trouble installing xp from boot disks

[Kasi]

My computer doesnt support installing from the cd drive. (Its a Dell
Dimension 4100, brought in 2001). So, I have created 6 boot disks for
xp.
I have my computer boot sequence as: floppy, cd-rom and hardrive.
I inserted my bootdisk#1 and started the install..after I instered all
the 6 floppies - I was prompted to insert the XP CD. I formated my
drive and started a clean install. After a while it complained about
not being able to copy some files - clspack.exe, javacypt.dll etc. I
skipped all those. The computer promted for re-starting..II removed
any floppies in the drive and restarted.
Now the problem started - It was supposed to continue installation
from the CD - But for some reason, it tries to boot from the floppy
drive . It kept complainig about wrong system disk in A: drive. If I
inserted bootdisk#1, it started the installation from the beginning.
What do I do now? Please help!

 

[Guest]

How do you figure it doesnt support installations from a cd,all pcs in
desktop form have and do...Simply start pc in BIOS,set cdrom as 1st boot
device,hd 2nd,install xp cd,save & exit.Boot to xp cd by pressing any key
when
the text apears.Also,one can format the hd before the xp installation but the
install will fail,one needs to delete partition(s),create one,then xp
formats &
installs auto...

 

[Kasi]

I setup the boot sequence in my BIOS - ATAPI CDROM, ARMD-HDD.
I guess that is cdrom and harddrive.
I inserted the XP CD, and rebooted the box.
I get an error: Invalid boot diskette. Insert BOOT diskette in to A:

It doesnt seem to recognize the boot CD.

 

[dloj333]

I setup the boot sequence in my BIOS - ATAPI CDROM, ARMD-HDD.
I guess that is cdrom and harddrive.
I inserted the XP CD, and rebooted the box.
I get an error: Invalid boot diskette. Insert BOOT diskette in to A:

It doesnt seem to recognize the boot CD.

The problem actually may be the CD -ROM. I had the same issues
loading Linux up and I bought a new CD drive and zip it loaded
quickly. If it is an actual XP CD and not a pirate copy, and your
Bios allows you to boot from CD, which it seems to do, the CD is not
reading the disk correctly. Even though the CD may read other disks,
when windows is operating correctly, it still may misread the disk you
are using to boot with. Try another CD or DVD drive.
dloj