cannot get live CD to work on ancient laptop: "K-MELEON.EXE FILE"?

Norman Silverstone norman at littletank.org
Sat May 14 20:49:25 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:03 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > So, short of trying to install the "install" disk and seeing what, if 
> > anything, happens, do you know a fix?
> > 
> > Or, if I just switch the setup to boot from the CD, ought it to work, 
> > and, if not, will I have the opportunity to go back into setup upon 
> > reboot and change the boot from CD-ROM back to C: and then A:?
> > 
> > I hope this question/these questions have some plain answer. . .thanks!
> 
> I have an old Toshiba running Win95 and so that I could see if it could
> manage Ubuntu I am going to try loading the live version first. If that
> is OK then I will try a full install.
> 
> Norman

 I am sorry I realise this does not really answer your question. To do
the test I needed to change the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM but, when the
Ubuntu CD was not in the drive, booting gave Win 95 as before. I hope
that helps.

Norman 





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