<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3837.1200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Du to the fact I cannor reply on Jay Ridgley mailing directly, I am using this way to inform Jay,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dear Reader(s), Hi Jay, Have not I send you already an answer to look at the <A href="http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/</A> from there you can download a boot and a root diskette which can point you to your install CD. Maybe you can go for a 'smal' installation with Redhat 7.3, a very good package, especially on slow machines, and add later on the (K)Ubuntu installation. It is for sure that you can get access to the CD fromout Redhat 7.3 and you can mount this CD directly from Redhat and/or mount with a linux boot disk (debian) your partition where you have put your CD installation CD (Copy all the files to an installation partition. Of course you also could make use of a Network Share NFS or SMB share where you can pinpoint to via (again) the Debian bootdisks. (Network installation via FTP, NFS or SMB. Success, Harry, for the debian siteOn Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:14 -0600, Jay Ridgley wrote: > Hello Harry, > > Well, I had not tried to use the LIVE CD, since I had a running Linux system. I > have just finished trying to get the live cd to boot and it also fails... > > I guess I need to figure out what is going on here. I have an Adaptec 29160 card > and a Yamaha CRW8824S drive. Like I said in a prior message the Red Hat 7.3 CDs > boot just fine. I have tried two different boot floppies but am unable to point > to the CD from them. > > I may not be able to use Unbutu... any ideas of other things I might try? > > Thanks for the assistance in getting this far. > > Kind regards, > Jay > > Harry Vorstenbosch wrote: > > Hi Jay, > > > > I forgot to mentioned just as you did, is the LIVE CD starting well?? > > > > Harry, > > > > > > </DIV></BODY></HTML>