Re: install lenny on Dell
On Sunday 29 August 2010 00:54:01 Tom Poe wrote:
> I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM
> drive. I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it
> to a Memorex DVD+RW disc. I shut down computer, started computer, got a
> blinking cursor for a few seconds, and then moved to ubuntu (installed
> operating system). Does this sound like I have to go buy some other
> discs, because my drive is too old, and can't read the DVD?
> Tom
I am coming to this rather late, so I apologise if the problem has already
been solved.
The last two Dells on which I have installed distros have required, I think,
F12 (tho' it could have been F2) to get to the boot menu and boot from the
DVD/CD drive. (Regardless of anything in the BIOS!)
Lisi
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