Hey Bevan,
Have you set up the BIOS so it boots from the CD/DVD drive before the
hard disk drive? There should be some option in the BIOS so that it
tries to boot from the CD first, then the hard disk, etc. After you
have Linux installed, you can easily change the order back, so that it
speeds up the boot process.
You'll have to check up on how you can access the bios on your
machine, though (check the manuals).
Hope that helps,
Dave.
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:16:21 +0000, Broun, Bevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I got myself a nice new laptop on the weekend. Dying to install linux on it
> but cant as the bios cant see the dvd/cdrom and so I cant boot ANY cd from
> this device.
>
> The laptop is badged pioneer but it is a mitac 8355 (athlon 64 bit, 1GB
> RAM). The bios is Insyde Mobile Pro Bios 4.00.05 (R1.01?). XP detects the
> dvd rw as teac dv-w22e. It is basically this:
> ttp://www.tuxmobile.org/xeron_sonic_pro_800mx.html
>
> Anybody see similar problems? Am I lookiing at a bios upgrade? Any ideas
> please.
>
> Thanks
>
> BB
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