I don't know if it really mattered, or it the machine just responded like the workers in the Westinghouse studies, but I decided to move the DVD drive down one level to an unused bay, thinking that just possibly the top bay was too snug for the drive. The SATA data cable was hard to remove, but it came out eventually and, after moving the drive, went back in without complaint.
After buttoning up the box and pushing the power button I pushed the eject button. The door opened. I pushed the button again and the drawer closed. Once booted I pushed the button again, the drawer opened, and I put in a blank DVD. I fired up Brasero and burned a DVD. The DVD is now being used to install Mythbuntu 12.04.2 on a recently acquired (hand-me-down) Toshiba Satellite. The laptop has a dual core 64 bit Intel processor, but only 1 GB of RAM. We'll see if Mythbuntu runs any better than the previous attempt to run 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04. The goal here isn't so much to use this laptop as part of my Myth system -- as yet to be assembled -- but to see if the distro will run well in a light memory environment. I know I can upgrade the RAM to 2 GB, but the screen has damage on the right side -- almost 1/4 is unusable. However, the external VGA port works just fine on one of my extra monitors, so I'll play with it some. Thanks for all the ideas on how to get the drive drawer open. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
