On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:18:03PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > gene - > > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:03:16PM -0500, Hal2000 wrote: > > I'm having a hell of time getting out of the starting gate with Debian > > Linux on my Dell latitude CPxJ laptop. The machine can boot from the > > CD, but bombs with the following message: > > Loading isolinux Disk Error 3B, AX=428E Drive82 > > boot failed > > After searching for a solution, I'm inclined to believe that my hardware > > is at fault. Seems that redhat and mandrake will install out of the > > box, or so the article says, although people have been able to get > > Debian to install. They offered no specific help, however. > > > > Anyway, can anyone help out? Maybe I should just go with mandrake or fc4 > > isolinux is used _very_ early in the boot process. > I wouldn't expect very different results from any > other distribution. > > Q1: does Knoppix boot? It tends to boot on just about > anything, and is very useful to find out what hardware > on your machine is supported. > > Q2: are you sure you burned the CD without errors? > > Comment: it's still hard to get started on Linux without > a local guru who can put hands on the machine, and spot > simple problems quickly. That was certainly true when > I started (in 1992), and I don't think it will ever disappear > completely. If you buy from a local shop, which I highly
If you try Windows instead, it will usually work smoothly that even an unexperienced user can do it. > recommend, by now they should have enough expertise to get It will disappear only when the developers stop interpreting criticism as personal insults and start interpreting it as a criticism reflecting reality. If Windows developers could write a system that is in most cases easy to install by a layperson, then Linux developers can do it as well. Try OpenBSD, that claims that was written specially with this goal in the mind. At least when I tried to install it, it had a consistent step-by-step manual. And gEDA should work on it as well. CL< > people through initial problems like this. > > - Larry
