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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard.Fuller1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm a "lurker" on this group and would like to inform anyone who is at > all interested that I've enrolled and paid my fee for the Beginners > Linux course at Exeter College. Please do discuss DCLUG with the tutor, if they aren't also lurking quietly. > the computer refuses to reboot from a cd > drive ( yes I know enough to try to sort that out in the bios ) There are only so many things to try here. Redhat CD have bootable floppy images on you can rawrite (or dd) to floppy disk to get started. You then boot from floppy and the floppy has a suitable CD ROM driver compiled into its kernel. I know I was dead impressed when working with a really ancient PC with a realy bizarre Creative CD player, only to find documentation and a suitable floppy image within a few seconds. That said if a computer built since 1998 won't boot from CD when the BIOS settings are right, it probably has hardware problems. Is the BIOS update actually taking? i.e. set boot from CDROM in BIOS, save, switch off, wait 5 seconds, switch on, check BIOS settings to see it is still boot from CDROM. How far does it get? > hence > my problem trying to re-install Red Hat........hopefully the course > will help iron out a few of my problems ........?? Probably, and a later Redhat woud probably help, I mean 6 was good, but it is ancient history. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/T2/sGFXfHI9FVgYRAhA/AKDYTwZDyYWPME8sc0wmtHmm5QXJ0gCggxzj nvWvG+UMUklNMiQab1bY3Wo= =UXNM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.