Lets start from the beginning. 1) What type of laptop do you have. 2) How do we enter the BIOS on this laptop.
3) After we answer 1 and 2. Darren On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Johngibbons wrote: > 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 -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
