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Posted: Sep. 22 2004,03:02 QUOTE

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
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tepezcuintle
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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,17:56 QUOTE

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
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