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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/24/2014 01:44 AM, Sabniveesu
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I've done many Linux installations earlier but
today an Dell Vostro 200(Intel Core 2 Duo) machine
failed me in all possible ways.<br>
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Briefly,<br>
OS Bootable Medium
Boot Disk creator<br>
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1) Ubuntu 11.10 & 13.04 -- USB Drive
-- UnetBootin(Linux),
Live-USB-Installer(Linux)<br>
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<div>[Message: "Boot Error"]<br>
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2) Debian 6
CD Burnt from an ISO<br>
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[Result: Many installation stages failed, reporting boot
medium fault. Please note that I used this disc
successfully many times so far]<br>
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At last, Fedora 17 from a CD got installed.<br>
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* I don't have a clue how I should troubleshoot this
situation.<br>
* I absolutely have no idea what to do in a scenario where
BIOS allows booting from USB but still nothing shows up
from an all perfect installation media.<br>
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Is there something which I should have done?<br>
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Thanking you<br>
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I don't have any suggestions, but I can sympathize with you. I am
sort of in the midst of an installation of PCLOS to a Dell<br>
E6510 laptop. It didn't like my CD installer, and it didn't like
several earlier versions of Partition Magic/GParted on CD,<br>
but it finally took Parted Magic 2013_05_01. Then I installed PCLOS
from a flash drive (made from an installed PCLOS on <br>
another machine). To my surprise, it created and formatted
partitions that I had left in an unused area, and put copies<br>
of Linux files on them. Then I decided to erase the three extra
partitions (it even put an extra swap) and then the <br>
machine wouldn't boot. Right now i have PCLOS installed on the two
"extra" partitions via a reinstall, and I'm still<br>
debating how to straighten this out. <br>
In addition to the former, the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at all
by either Windows 7 Pro or PCLinux. The systems<br>
thenk there is no optical drive! I haven't figured that out at all.
I have been corresponding with folks on the PCLinux Forum<br>
and there have been no real solutions yet.<br>
Please include me in, anyone who has any information relative to
this!<br>
(In the meantime, I would have to say I can't recommend a recent
Dell laptop to anyone who wants to run Linux!)<br>
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--doug<br>
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