OS Reinstallation on Portege 2000 with non IDE CD-ROM

Hello,
I recently received from my Dad a Portege 2000 (bought in Japan if that makes a difference) on which I am trying to reinstall Win XP from the provided Recovery CDs (there are 3 CDs containing Win XP Pro and Win 2000).
I am trying to do this with a USB FDD and a PCMCIA Sony CRX75A CD-Rom which connects to the computer via a other manufacture PC Card ACR-A01 switchable between 16 bit and CardBus mode).
As I am not very familiar with DOS, CardBus and booting stuff I read quite some topics and found the following application, BootdiskP2000.EXE which contains drivers for PCMCIA and USB Toshiba CD-ROM. So I ran it and when choosing external PCMCIA CD Drive from the menu, I got the following:
PC Card driver for external ATAPI-IDE Drives Rev:2203
Found PCCARD: IO DATA CBIDE2 V4.1
ERROR: There is no PCCARD in socket A and B!
PCCARD not initialized!!
So, I looked on the web for DOS Drivers for my ACR-A01 and found DUAOTA16.SYS and DUOATACD.SYS. I then modified my CONFIG.SYS (again maybe not correctly as I am not at ease with that) by adding a menuitem, and further on:
[SONY]
DEVICE=A:\DUOATA16.SYS
DEVICE=A:\DUOATACD.SYS /D:TOSCD001
When running it, I get the followings:
DuoATA16 CS Client Driver Version 1.01
Copyright....
CBIDE2: Not found CardServices.
Driver is not installed.
DuoATACD CD-ROM Driver Version 1.06
Copyright....
IDECD: Not Configuration CBIDE2 Card.
CD-ROM driver is not installed.
If have a look on the HISTORY.TXT file from the boot disk, at the end it is written: "If you use it with other CD-Roms, you have to modify/exchange normaly the CD-Rom driver (e.g. Toscdrom.sys-file!) and the driver, over which you get access to the PCMCIA Card (Fcatapi.sys and FCPoint.exe)." but I have no idea with what I'd have to replace it.
Last point, my BIOS settings on page 2 are: Device Config.=All Devices which allows me to set PC CARD Controller Mode=CardBus/16-Bit, and by the way the onther manufacture CD-ROM used to work fine with the Portege but with a Win XP driver.
Anyone has an idea of what is going on here, because I'm kind of lost. Thanx a lot!!!
P.S I also tried to boot via PXE-LAN from a PC running Win Server 2003 but that doesn't work either, but I'll start a new topic for that.

And why you don´t try maybe a USB-DVD-ROM? A USB will be recognized for sure. I installed on my Portege R200 a XP Pro with a USB-DVD-ROM.
Greets

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I am wanting to use an Oracle 9i with WebLogic 7
I have the following in my config.xml:
<JDBCConnectionPool DriverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
Name="Thin.Pool" Password="{3DES}C3xDZIWIABA="
Properties="user=SYSTEM" TestTableName="OID"
URL="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:DB_SID"/>
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####<Mar 31, 2003 6:33:45 PM MST> <Info> <HTTP> <blue> <GameServe>
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identity> <> <101047>
<[ServletContext(id=4110316,name=console,context-path=/console)]
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####<Mar 31, 2003 6:35:37 PM MST> <Info> <JDBC> <blue> <GameServe>
<ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: '__weblogic_admin_html_queue'> <kernel
identity> <> <001082> <Creating Data Source named DB_DS for pool
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with non-existent Pool (connection or multi) (Thin.Pool)
atweblogic.jdbc.common.internal.JdbcInfo.validateConnectionPool(JdbcInfo.java:
127)
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3)
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onMBeanImpl.java:353)
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8)
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3)
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erverImpl.java:898)
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rvlet.java:171)
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tStubImpl.java:1058)
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:401)
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:306)
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ebAppServletContext.java:5445)
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r.java:780)
atweblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletCo
ntext.java:3105)
atweblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java
:2588)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
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 <![CDATA[
 import spark.layouts.VerticalLayout;
 ]]>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
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 <fx:Script>
 <![CDATA[
 import spark.layouts.VerticalLayout;
 ]]>
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Tough decision ahead, but accordingly to the survey at codestyle.org (2000 participants from 2007 year and onwards), Arial Unicode MS is present at 62.53%% system surveyed.
ps
 My current install of Windows XP already includes the install of Microsoft Office 2007 and I've also enabled/disabled the support of East Asian languages, thus the content of my "fonts" folder differs now significantly from "clean" Windows XP install version.
Nevertheless I found the page with comprehensive lists of standard fonts installed with different releases of Windows that looks viable here: http://www.kayskreations.net/fonts/fonttb.html

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Ragards
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