How to boot from CD-Rom on 520CDT with no OS on hard drive

Hi
I formatted the drive on this Tecra 520CDT laptop (old I know but I have a use for it), only to discover that it does not seem to want to boot from the CD-Rom drive. I no longer have the interchangeable floppy drive. Any suggestions as to how I could force it to boot from CD-Rom (I have changed boot order in Bios) Windows disks or something else?
Until I can do so, I cannot reinstall an OS.
Alternatively, will any old external floppy drive work, and if so which port? will it boot from parallel port?
Thanks
Jonathan

Hi,
on these "Oldies" you have to create a boot floppy disk with the CD Driver.
Then you must connect the CD and Floppy Drives, have to boot this Floppy disk and C: prompt will be available!
Then when the CD ROM driver was loaded you can start the CD.
It can be that you need the original Toshiba Drives!
Bye TOK

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