Re: Will not Boot from CD Rom

From: John Winters (newstmp_at_linuxemporium.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/03


Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:50:14 +0000 (UTC)

In article <31893d47.0308261738.3a8e9e15@posting.google.com>,
Dave <dfbrownau@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a new Dimension 4600 from Dell. I burned the iso files onto CDs

Which ISO files?

>and now I am trying to boot my computer from the cd rom.
>
>It actually finds the CD and runs through it then fails.

And the error message is?

>I used the
>md5summer.exe to check that the iso files were ok and there were not
>any problems.

Looks like your download was OK then. It's probably a problem
with how you burned the CDs. What do you see if you browse the CD
under your existing operating system?

>Can anyone help?

Probably - if you provide more information.

>It seems like there is only a few options I can try....

There are an infinite number of things you can try. Only a few of them
will help.

John

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