My PC has Windows installed. I am trying to boot it up with Gentoo boot
CD so I can install gentoo on it. But it is failing to read the boot CD.
What could be the problem?
Cheers,
Pubudu.
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Change the order of the boot devices in your BIOS. You might make sure
that you can actually see the CD from Winblows so that you know it is
readable. If this is your problem then you might want to try a distro
that is geared more towards new Linux users.
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:12 +1000, Nanay
Did you burn the data file or burn the iso? If you look at the CD in
Windows what do you see? (Should be folders and files - not a single
iso file.
Next, does your PC boot from CD. Some people turn that off or place it
after the hard drive so they can leave a CD in and still boot. check
BIOS.
Thi
-user] Don't read the boot CD
Change the order of the boot devices in your BIOS. You might make sure
that you can actually see the CD from Winblows so that you know it is
readable. If this is your problem then you might want to try a distro
that is geared more towards new Linux users.
On We
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD
Did you burn the data file or burn the iso? If you look at the CD in
Windows what do you see? (Should be folders and files - not a single iso
file.
Next, do
I am not familiar with Windows CD burning software, but there should
be an option for you to Open an ISO file. Sometimes it is called Open
a disc Image, or something similar. What you have done is, instead of
burning the iso as a raw data, making a CD of the iso.
You want to think of the iso as a
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:55:20 -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> I am not familiar with Windows CD burning software, but there should
> be an option for you to Open an ISO file. Sometimes it is called Open
> a disc Image, or something similar. What you have done is, instead of
> burning the iso as a raw d
Can you see 'the file' or can you see a whole shitload of files and
directories? If you can only see one file, ?.iso, then you didn't
burn the CD correctly. The iso is an image file that needs to be burned
onto the CD without anything else. If you drag and drop in Windoze then
it will first
On 4/19/05, Nanayakkara, Pubudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This may be the issue,
>
> I only have one iso file..
> "install-amd64-universal-2005.0.iso"
>
> Gentoo installation guide doesn't say that I need to have more than one
> file. So, I downloaded only the ISO file.
>
> Cheers,
> Pubudu.
Mark Knecht wrote:
On 4/19/05, Nanayakkara, Pubudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This may be the issue,
I only have one iso file..
"install-amd64-universal-2005.0.iso"
Gentoo installation guide doesn't say that I need to have more than one
file. So, I downloaded only the ISO file.
Cheers,
Pubudu.
Pub
On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is
> possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file
> to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that you're not to
> burn the folder itself,
At Bottom.
Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is
possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file
to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that y
-user] Don't read the boot CD
Can you see 'the file' or can you see a whole shitload of files and
directories? If you can only see one file, ?.iso, then you didn't
burn the CD correctly. The iso is an image file that needs to be burned
onto the CD without anything else.
Robert G. Hays wrote:
At Bottom.
Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is
possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file
to a folder and burn the contents of t
Pubudu, one last thought... before you alter the partitions on your
drive to make room for the Linux, two thoughts:
1) you ned to defrag your drive, either with any built-in tools in
WhinedoZZZe, or best if you have or can afford, SpeedDisk from Norton
2) ... Unless you are using a new ver
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:08:30PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote:
> 2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what
> you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims',
> if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my fingers
> firmly cros
-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD
Pubudu, one last thought... before you alter the partitions on your
drive to make room for the Linux, two thoughts:
1) you ned to defrag your drive, either with any built-in tools in
WhinedoZZZe, or best if you have o
Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:08:30PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote:
2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what
you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims',
if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my finger
back.
Cheers,
Pubudu.
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From: Robert G. Hays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 10:09 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD
Pubudu, one last thought... before you alter the partitions on your
drive to
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