loading ubuntu 7.10

[Eric Cyr]

Only problem with that, is that he specified the HDD was blank:
"I downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 OS and burned to a CD. I recently received an
old IBM Net Vista with a *blank hard drive*. "

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Eugene Cormier <eugene.cormier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Honestly guys....if he's getting a "operating system not found" message
> I would think that that means that he's got it to boot from the
> cd....it's just that there is no boot info which could mean either a
> defective cd or he burnt the iso image to a data disk....If he didn't
> have the bios boot order set up properly it wouldn't give the error he
> said, but it would boot immediately into the first OS on his hard disk
>
> Eugene
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:44 -0700, j&l wrote:
> >
> > I Kevin . My name is John Papineau and I am the technician for Nelson
> > computers and Open source  Technology group . We are situated in
> > Canada in the town of Nelson in the province of B.C.
> >
> > solution to your problem :
> >
> > first check in your bios if the boot setup  show your cd or dvd  has
> > the first boot  device . In the IBM model the bios is sometime access
> > by pressing F1 key on your keyboard and releasing it and pressing the
> > key again until you see a message on your computer screen that say
> > accessing the bios  . Then, look into the bios setup menu of your
> > computer and make sure that your cd or dvd drive is the first drive
> > selected in the boot up menu selection. After you made the proper
> > change to the boot up menu , select the option in the exit menu that
> > say   save change then exit the bios. After that, the computer  will
> > start again . Now, open your cd or dvd drive and put your Ubuntu disk
> > in the drive then close the drive and press  the 3 following key  one
> > after the other  CTRL  ALT  DElete.  Your  computer  should  restart
> > and  the  ubuntu  disk  should  start  booting .
> >
> > I hope this will help you.
> >
> > have a good day
> >
> > Nelson Computers and Open Source Technology
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kevin and Nicole McCormick wrote:
> > >
> > > Good day,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am not very computer savvy so forgive me for any ignorant
> > > questions.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 OS and burned to a CD. I recently
> > > received an old IBM Net Vista with a blank hard drive. The computer
> > > has a Pentium 4 processor.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am attempting to load the Ubuntu onto the blank drive with the CD.
> > > When I turn the computer on I get a message of "no operating system
> > > found. Press F1 for reboot sequence" (maybe not word for word).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The CD is running but I do not know how to start the load sequence.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you help?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kevin
> > >
> > >
> >
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