[syslinux] Problem booting older laptop

[Lonnie Mullenix]

I don't know if this is even the proper place for my issue, but since
the boot floppies that I have downloaded are syslinux based.

I have a 97 vintage Hitachi laptop, and it won't boot newer CDs.  It
will, however, boot a Debian 2.1 CD.  As we know, that version is quite
old, and it booted off the second CD, not the first.

What I want/need to know, is there a reasonable way for a complete
newbie to this sort of thing to build a bootable CD with a newer
kernel, etc.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-- 
Later,

Lonnie
Mostly Debian, but now
I'm messing around with
Gentoo.  Humm, I kind of
like it too.