Recovery of R100 from CF PCMCIA Card?

I have an R100 and its original recovery disks. I do not have the PCMCIA-based cd rom drive that the R100 will use with those disks.
The BIOS supports booting from PCMCIA and I can boot a basic linux environment from a Flash card there.
I thought maybe I could copy the recovery CD to the Flash and use it to recover but when I do that and try to boot from the PCMCIA I'm getting a message that says, "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart"
Any suggestions?

Have you given a thought to using a USB CD-ROM ?

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