Newbie helpForum: Laptops Topic: Newbie help started by: Alanganes Posted by Alanganes on Sep. 22 2004,03:02
Hi All,I am attempting to run DSL on an NEC laptop, P1,133Mhz, 48Meg Ram, 1.2 GB HDD, internal CDROM, presently has win95 on it, but hoping to make that go away shortly. I figured I would try running on the CD version to learn my way around, then work up to a HD install. I would like this laptop just for email and light duty web browsing. Anyhow, I downloaded DSL and burned a CD. I set my BIOS to boot from the CD, put it in the CD and restarted. I got a fast scrolling lines of text reading: Isolinux: found something at Drive = XX with "XX" being a 2 digit (I think) hex number, ending with 9F. Then it says: Isolinux: looks like it might be right, continuing Then I get: Isolinux:Disk error 5D, AX=42D9, Drive 9F Boot finished, press a key to retry. Pressing a key to retry gets the same result. I have no idea what that means. I have used computers for a long time, but am no "expert" and know nearly nothing about Linux. Please go easy if the above is a dumb question! Any ideas or could someone point me to a place to read up? Thanks, -AL Posted by tepezcuintle on Sep. 29 2004,17:56
Try burning another cd but burn it at a lower speed. High speed burning might've corrupted the cd and you can mount it.; Try burning the cd at 4X |