On Sunday 29 August 2010 00:54:01 Tom Poe wrote: > I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM > drive. I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it > to a Memorex DVD+RW disc. I shut down computer, started computer, got a > blinking cursor for a few seconds, and then moved to ubuntu (installed > operating system). Does this sound like I have to go buy some other > discs, because my drive is too old, and can't read the DVD? > Tom
I am coming to this rather late, so I apologise if the problem has already been solved. The last two Dells on which I have installed distros have required, I think, F12 (tho' it could have been F2) to get to the boot menu and boot from the DVD/CD drive. (Regardless of anything in the BIOS!) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009022315.19064.lisi.re...@gmail.com
