Hello to all, A plea for guidance. I am a perennial beginner so it needs to be simple. I have an old laptop that I installed Xandros on, supposedly beside XP. I mucked up the installation and it wiped out XP. Then it would not talk to the internet. So I uninstalled following book directions and, lo!, it vanished but left me with a laptop whose screen says "no system installed".
I have two possible steps in mind, either of which will do. First, to reinstall XP and then add a Linux distro as I was able to do with another distro before I stuffed up the Xandros installation. I have a boot floppy for XP but I get the "A:>\" thing and I do not know what to type after that to get it moving along. So this route is beyond me at the moment. Can someone help out with what I should type in? Please keeping it simple? The other route is to install Lindows 4 or Mandrake 10 exclusively. But when I try that all I get is the "no system installed" notice. Is there something I can type in that will get the installation CD to run? Any guidance gratefully appreciated. John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
