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Posted: Jan. 25 2006,04:24

I have the same player and it finds it, as normal usb storage drive, no drivers needed.

freeze

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Posted: Jan. 25 2006,09:50

Did you have a look at the DSL Wiki site?

DSL Wiki

There's a part "Documentation" which is very usefull for getting started.

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"There is *always* one more bug." -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology

charly
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Posted: Feb. 11 2006,13:43

Quote (paark @ Jan. 20 2006,00:12)

set bios to boot from my cdrom drive
and... nothing happen. My winXP just bootup like it it always.

Hi,

I had the same problem with Asus (new DSL-CD, but always Windows showing up) but it turned out to be not the fault of the notebook but my own: Somewhere I read that it is necessary to switch off the "Quick boot" in your BIOS and now it's working without problems

. When active, Quick boot will always overrun your own choice of the booting device...

Good luck!

charly

PS: I admit I'm new on Linux, too, and it took quite a lot of searching to find this trick!

charly
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Posted: Feb. 14 2006,10:57

Hi,

one more thing: Do you use ESC for booting or F9? (Probably it's the same on your Asus as on my A6) When pressing F9 you will get the recovery (of your XP), with ESC you can choose the booting device.
Perhaps you could tell us if it worked

Charlotte

I forgot: Thanks to Brian! I managed to burn a "real" CD with your hint after having spoiled one using "bootable CD" on Nero...

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