"Ben Myers" snip

Did you change the boot order priority in the last screen of the BIOS
CMOS setup to boot first from CD, then from floppy, and then from hard
disk? If so, the computer should boot from CD. If not, pressing F12
with a modern BIOS gets it to present a choice of boot devices, from
which you select one... Ben Myers

F10 on my Gateway brings up the boot menu. F12 tries to do a network book.

SC Tom