suggestions for old Acer

Please all suggestions. Bought this old computer for my kids - OS wiped out. Is set to apparently only boot from floppy drive, plus there does not seem to be a driver for the CD.
The BIOS is apparently Acer v2.0 from 1994 - yes that old.
What can I do to get it to boot from a CD and install a new operating system? Tried a bootdisk(floppy), but I guess it didn't have a driver for the CD drive.
Don't remember now but seems like when I tried to read a CD from the DOS prompt, it wouldn't do it - suggesting to me that it doesn't have a driver or it got corrupted. Perhaps it is just not configured properly in the BIOS, but couldn't figure this out.
Thank you in advance.

 

Go here, http://www.bootdisk.com/, and download the Win98SE or the Windows ME boot disk. The file will be in a self extracting format so you will need a blank floppy handy in order to make your boot disk. This should get you started as either disk loads a DOS cd driver. Hope this helps!