Boot from CD

[Skip Guenter]

F12 is most common on Dells but could be F1, F2 or ESC to get to the 
"boot option" menu right during BIOS check.  Sometimes you can just set 
it in the BIOS boot order to look at the CD first.

On 03/03/2013 03:00 PM, Dan Healy wrote:
> F12 does not let me choose a boot device.  I have an ASUS X54C-MS91 
> Laptop Computer.  It came with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 
> (64-bit).  I burned an Ubuntu 12.04 CD in June of last year when I got 
> this computer and used it to create my current system.  When I looked 
> at the contents it looks just like the one I burned today.
>
> Dan  H
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org 
> <mailto:leesharp at hal-pc.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 03/03/2013 01:45 PM, Dan Healy wrote:
>
>         I did "open with brasero" and got the same results, 9 folders,
>         boot,
>         casper, dists, install, isolinux, pics, pool, preseed, ubuntu,
>         and 4
>         files, autorun.inf, md5sum.txt, README.diskdefines, and wubi.exe.
>
>
>     So if the CD shows that, it looks good.  What kind of computer are
>     you on?  Can you hit F12 to choose a boot device?
>
>                             Lee
>
>
>
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S. R. 'Skip' Guenter
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