On 08/05/10 13:22, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 07:48 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> On 08/05/10 12:26, NoOp wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/07/2010 06:40 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>>> Have you tried this?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-wubi
>>>>
>>>> BC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> And why would he try that?
>>> <quote from OP>
>>> Good evening
>>> I did have the same problem with 9.10:
>>> when I insert the live CD into the drive, the computer boots from HDD
>>> and apparently "mounts" the CD,
>>> but it shows absolutely no intention to boot from it.
>>> When I put the same CD in my desktop Windows machine, it does what it is
>>> supposed to do.
>>>
>>> AND, the note PC I am using for Linux DID/DOES recognize/boot from a
>>> live CD of Ubuntu 9.04 (that is why I have that system installed - thus,
>>> the drive is not broken).
>>> </quote from OP>
>>>
>>> You are suggesting that instead he use wubi to accomplish this?
>>> Mind boggles... beer goggles.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Of course your mind would be boggling and that's because you don't read
>> proppa :-) .
>>
>> The comment was:
>>
>> QUOTE
>>
>> * Installing Linux on my desktop PC (currently Windows XP): the last
>> time I tried that, it disabled my work machine and almost put me out of
>> business.
>> = NOT an option. I need to have my "production machine", as some people
>> on this list like to call it, running.
>> So far (I spent already 3 years trying to make this thing work!) Linux
>> could not guarantee me that. (Probably I am just too stupid.)
>>
>> UNQUOTE
>>
> Who knows?
>
> <quote>
>
>> AND, the note PC I am using for Linux DID/DOES recognize/boot from a
>> live CD of Ubuntu 9.04 (that is why I have that system installed -
>>
> thus,> the drive is not broken).
> </quote>
> and
> <quote>
> The downloaded live CD does not work.
> I cannot burn a new CD with a the Linux based computer I have.
> ALL other options so far have failed .
> Now what?
> "Just" (that seems to be a term many Linxu users are allergic to) forget
> about it and resign to being stuck with 9.04?
> differently?
> </quote>
>
> Maybe I missed "something essential"?
>
> Either way, I'd recommend that he burn the CD's at a low speed (4x) and
> then try. If you read his post regarding the CD's that work and those
> that don't (the one that I replied to), it would seem to me that he has
> an issue with the burnt CDs. Afterall:
>
> <quote>
> LiveCDs that DO work:
> Ubuntu 9.04
> Debian
>
> LiveCDs that DO NOT work:
> Ubuntu 9.10
> Ubuntu 10.4
> Ubuntu 8.10 etc.
> Mandriva
> Fedora 10
> OpenSUSE just tried 10.3
> Puppy
> PCLOS
> etc.
> </quote>
>
> appears to be a CD problem - does it not to you? Think about it...
>
It would *appear* to be so - but not necessarily which is why the
alternate suggestions.
The bug in the ointment here is the statement that on his - I deduce
that it is a - laptop only Ubuntu 9.04 and Debian (what flavour is not
stated) "work", ie boot.
None of the other distros/versions boot.
But what is NOT mentioned anywhere is which of all of the above have
been or have not been burnt on the Windows XP desktop computer (and I'd
also like to know if XP has had all of the upgrades put thru to it) and
which have been either obtained from the back of magazines or given to
the OP by someone.
If both Ubuntu 9.04 and Debian were also downloaded and then burnt on
the XP and which boot on the portable then why not all the others?
Afterall, I cannot imagine the OP suddenly doing something radically
different when burning all the other distros/versons from what he did
when he burnt 9.04 and Debian. Of course this is the question the OP
posed to begin with.
Nevertheless, your suggestion to try burning at a slower rate is
certainly worth pursuing. At least this will eliminate another variable
in this puzzle.
BC
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei