following a motherboard failure I have replaced it with
ASRock K8NF6P-VSTA. (only one ide skt)
I have an ide hard drive and a CD RW which is also needs an ide skt.
Funds are a bit low at the moment (being one of the ancient brigade).
Until I can afford a sata drive, can I use CD RW in the ide skt internal
and the external ide drive I have (USB) to install the Operating System
without having an internal hard drive in the PC

Roy