I had a problem during a cd install on my old 486. I partitioned the drive and when debian tried to mount the drive it hung. I rebooted and my dos partition is gone. Now I have no system so I can't get the machine to recognize the cd drive (that I just installed specifically to install debian).
Is there any way to install debian from the cd without msdos on my computer? Can debian recognize the cd without dos? I have an american megatrends motherboard and there's no boot from cd option in the bios setup.
