Cleaner than I thought!  LOL!  Okay, here's the problem: Windows has been scrubbed out of the two Dell computers I bought at a college auction on Saturday.  Each one is equipped with a 3.5 floppy drive, a CD drive, and a DVD drive, as well as a hard disk.  I can't get either one of them to boot from the CD or DVD drive so I can install an operating system on them, and of course they're just so much scrap without an OS.  

So how do I work it?  Do I try to install DOS (latest version I have is 6.0) through the floppy drive?  Then go from there?  Or is there a way I can get them to read from the CD or the DVD?  I tried holding down F8 while I rebooted, and once I let it up, the machines continued to boot until I got the message "System Halted."

Not willing to shell out $120 for a new copy of Windows...  I mean to install Ubuntu on these machines.  TIA for any help!

Joyce in SE Ohio  

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