P_Thorne wrote:
My first post.....
I d/l'd the distro yesterday as the "live" version and burned the CD.
Works fine on my Pentium 4 system and I was impressed by how much
functionality I had with the default boot. It actually "saw" my Vicam
USB camera, although it couldn't use it. It recognized my
SoundBlaster Audigy card! I didn't expect to have an easy time with
the cam or a printer.
I wanted to load a distro on my old Pentium II 400mhz system (256M
ram) and I wanted to try the "live" distro first. Unfortunately, the
BIOS of that system is not recognizing the setup instructions to boot
from a CD (and I think it did at one time - how did I load Windows 98
or Windows ME on it?). I tried updating the BIOS with a later
version, but it hasn't seemed to help. The CD drive works fine under
an OS.
That system has an ASUS P2B mainboard. Anyone have any experience
with this problem? I am still researching jumpers on the mainboard.
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Hi P_Thorne, I have had to use a boot floppy for windoz before on
computers that wouldn't boot to CD although some windows CDs won't
install that way. YMMV
Most Linux distros (I think) will install from CD using a boot floppy
although I've never tried this yet. Hope this helps.
Wayne
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