Might want to be careful since some of the brand name laptops have a very small partition which is especially made for booting and might not allow a bootable CD to work, especially OS CDs. In most cases this partition is perm and there is no way to wipe it, well not one I have found, but you can still manage. I usually copy the contents of every OS CD to the hd before a fresh install, it just goes quicker this way.

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