On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:37, Rex Johnston wrote: > Rex Johnston wrote: > > Andy George wrote: > >> What I have: > > > > <SNIP> > > > >> I plug in the first CD, get as far as the "Many versions of Welcome" > >> screen, and the entire process stops. No errors, no beeps, the CD Rom > >> goes idle (stops working), but no Install Menu... > > > > Rest the bios back to defauilts. > > Reset all the memory and cards. > > Get a new CDROM drive. > > I need to sleep. Make that > Reset the bios back to defaults. > Reseat memory & cards. Ensure the md5sum of the CD is correct. If it's good run memtest86. http://www.memtest86.com/ If memory good, attempt to boot from rescue floppy / floppies:- Toms root and boot:- http://www.toms.net/rb/download.html or B.G. Rescue ( two floppies ):- http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ The latter is better 'cos it implements chroot correctly.
Try a booting Knoppix. I have an image and could burn you a CD. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
