8.10 impressions

[Knapp]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> 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. ]
>

This seems to be more on the order of pick boot method from the linux
list of choices and then hangs sort of problem.

Thanks though!

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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