loading ubuntu 7.10

[Tony Yarusso]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Eric Cyr <1ballistic1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 the other hand, burning the ISO as data might also be worth
investigating.

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Tony Yarusso
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