Re: OpenSuse Installation Problem

From: NunYa Bidness (nunyabidness_at_nunyabidness.org)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:17:04 GMT

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:27:49 +0100, Brian <brian@beepbeep.invalid>
Gave us:

>On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:08:46 +0000, Frank J. Lhota wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry, I should have been more specific about what explorer showed
>> as the contents. The contents of disk 1 follow this. This looks like an
>> installation disk to me. And yet, I can't seem to boot from it!
>>
>[snipped file list]
>
>Ah right; I see your problem! ;)
>This all looks quite reasonable and you've obviously not just made another
>copy of the ISO file.
>
>Probably an obvious one, but you're sure that machine's BIOS has been
>tweaked to allow a boot from CD? And on a similar line, do you know that
>it can actually boot a CD? Some machines can't.
>
>Short of that, or someone popping up with the news that Roxio screws
>ISO-sourced CD burns, I'll retire gracefully with apologies for being no
>help at all...
>
  Hahahaha... pretty good...

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