Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 06/21/2012 06:36 PM:
On 21 June 2012 14:57, Roger Searle <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 21/06/12 13:56, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Well, now that exams are over, I tried Puppy Linux, but the
BIOS refused
to boot from the disc. I have no idea why.
I've had numerous occasions where a particular cd/dvd drive fails
to see a particular disk with distro burnt to it. The md5sum of
the downloaded ISO is always correct, k3b (or what ever) reports a
successful burn, it's not that. It's simply that some drives and
some disks randomly just won't play nice. Burn another one and
try again.
Make sure that both the writeable CD and the lens in the CD / DVD
drive are both spotlessly clean.
Then check that the md5sum of the data on the CD / DVD is good.
If it is, and the CDs ( this and other ones ) remain obstinately
unbootable you probably have BIOS setting problems
Avoid using CDRW media, older drives don't boot of them so well.
Also try burning your media at single speed.
Personally I thought puppy was not what I wanted, but to each their own.
--
Craig Falconer
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