8.10 impressions

[Billie Walsh]

On 10/12/2008 Knapp wrote:
>  Sounds really good. I am still holding out hope that the devs make
>  this look good.
>
>  In about 2 weeks I am going to try to install it to my brothers laptop
>  guiding him over the internet (There are no details about the laptop
>  because it is not standard and getting info out of xp is not something
>  I am good at). Not easy to do! In the past this has not worked out
>  because the CD will not boot is system.
>
>  Anyone have a check list for booting a really hard to boot system. As
>  in try this, and if not that then this, etc? I would be a real help. I
>  am thinking of just having him use the alt CD to hopefully avoid
>  problems.

OK, really stupid questions.

Does the CD drive have any known issues? [ plays music etc. just fine ]
Has he checked the bios to see:
The machine will boot from CD. Most will but ...............
The CD is set higher on the boot order than the hard drive.

Perhaps run one of those CD cleaner disks in it. If his is like mine it 
doesn't get a LOT of use and dust sometimes collects.  Blow it out with 
some compressed-air-in-a-can.

My eMachine has a built in boot loader sort of thing in the bios that 
lets me choose which drive I want to boot from regardless of above 
settings. I push F10 at a certain point and it gives me a list of 
available devices, internal and external, to choose from. [ Kind of a 
nice feature sometimes - wish all had that. ]

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