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In a recent thread that I made, I asked how to format my hard drive to take out $windows$. Now that I have taken out $windows$ off of my computer i want to install distro of linux called ThizLinux that came with my computer when I had boughten it. I try to install it and it tells me to insert the ThizLinux CD...BUT its already in my computer! I guess it just cant read it. But why cant it read it if the CD has no scratches and the computer is practically new? Is this a driver problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Which version have you got?
You can either slowly resumer-download a few cds or just pay a few pounds/dollars to have correctly burned ones mailed to you.
Are you closing the cd bay before it gives this warning? What cd drive is it?
Originally posted by Evilone Have you checked in BIOS that you are set to boot from CD??
Is the linux cd bootable???
Yes, I did configure BIOS to do that, and, yes, of course the linuxCD is a bootable CD.... It is an installation CD
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Originally posted by koyi Sometimes it just needs to make sure that the installation disk is inside. Try to simply press enter when it asks you. Just a suggestion, though.
Yes, my computer will boot off of any cd thats bootable.
Maybe I'll try to get a copy of a distro... but im not sure exactly what to get...im leaning towards Slackware(they say it was the first made but im pretty sure it was SLS), theres so many to choose from!
Who says? It's common knowledge that Slack was originally based on SLS.
I'm confused. For you to get that message, it'd have to be coming from Thizlinux - so are you booting from a floppy with the CD in the drive, or directly from the CD? If the CD, the CD is telling you to put itself in? And just pressing enter doesn't work? Do you have a boot prompt? Like Shade basically said, maybe you're supposed to type in 'root=/dev/hdc' or some such. Maybe look over the site and the docs again and see if it says anything like that.
So you put in a bootable install cd and boot your comp. And a message tells you to insert the bootable install cd.
That makes no sense.
Like I say, the only I can think of is that it wants to know if it's supposed to install from cd or hard drive. Like it if it takes two cds, it's asking whether it should look for a second cd or look to your hard drive for its files. Or it's really badly written and buggy. If there's no way for you to enter information, I don't know what to tell you. The only thing I can think of is to stick in the second cd if there is one. And md5 the cd if possible, as you may have half a disk when there should be more. Though it's unlikely. But it can't be a hardware or disk problem, itself, if it boots. And weird that the filesystem would be screwed if it boots as well. So either you need to give it some kind of info or it's just plain written wrong.
Does the message have an 'okay' button or something? Is it a graphical message? Make sure 'okay' is highlighted *when* you hit enter 30 times.
And, seriously, try some other distro if this one just won't work. I don't know where you are or what kind of connection you have or whether a magazine or library might carry cds or what. But try another distro one way or the other.
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