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Infusion

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Posted: Oct. 16 2004,14:31

When i try to boot DSL on my system i gte the normal loadin screen and then after about a minute it either loads windows or it says there was an error booting.

any help out there?

System:

WindowsXP Professional
1.6ghz
224mb Ram
Amd Duron

sorry if ive missed something obvious but im new to DSL

skaos

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Posted: Oct. 16 2004,14:42

You may have to change the boot sequence in the bios so that your pc tries to boot from the CD-drive before the hard disk. Also, there may be a problem with the CD - did you check the md5sum before burning? And how did you burn the CD - if you use Ahead Nero you should use File -> Burn Image.

Infusion

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Posted: Oct. 16 2004,15:10

yeah, i used nero, i did the file image thingy, errm..whats md5um? and i changed the bios to boot on cd b4 HD

skaos

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Posted: Oct. 17 2004,11:44

The md5sum is a check sum - it is a way to check that your download wasn't corrupted. Here is a windows software to do that: http://www.md5summer.org/. If the generated sum of the iso image is the same as in dsl-0.8.2.iso.md5.txt (found on the same site as the iso image), then the download is ok.