Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My name is Paul Thorne.Hey! Welcome to the list! What is your name?Have you checked the boot order listed in your BIOS? There should be an option for setting the boot precident of devices. What is your motherboard's model number? - Sebastian On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, 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. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug------------------------------ I forgot to mention that another thing that impressed me was that the Ubuntu Live distro actually recognized my Windows network. I was able to connect to a share I had on my Windows ME Pentium II 400 system and display JPG images on that share under ubuntu. [Sorry not to share to everyone - behind a firewall.] It felt good to pop open a terminal window and start hitting the command line again! ----- Paul |
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