<quote who="David"> > I've just aquired a Dell Inspiron 4000 and found that Woody CD1 won't > boot. I've managed to get it to boot from another Distro, and I wondered > if anyone knows why the Woody wouldn't. I've used that same CD to install > about 3 other systems.
Possibly because the hardware is new enough that the kernels on the woody CD (either 2.2 or 2.4) don't support it. There are a bunch of netinst CDs that have new kernels on them designed to boot new hardware though, you might be able to find one that'll boot your box. (Not sure of any canonical list of these unfortunately, so I can't URL you up.) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ "Women are too irrational to be crazed killers anyway." - Angus Lees -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
