Compaq with AMD K7 processor won't Boot from CD/DVD Drive
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Make a Plop boot floppy. Make a Linux live usb with Unetbootin. I have used Plop myself on a floppy disk to install AntiX
on my IBM M41 Desktop computer and my IBM A22M laptop computer. Both of those do not have usb boot support in bios.
That is why a keep a PLOP floppy around now. Saves money on cd disks.
I actually tried installing Debian on a CD without a web connection and got a ton of errors. Seems my Ethernet cable is the wrong size or something.
I tried partitioning the disk too and now it seems like I wiped Windows XP. Doesn't really matter as I am using this computer to test out Linux and WinXP sucks!
If you can't even get to a welcome screen on any of those distros, it's probably a drive issue, as suggested above, not an issue with the distros. Be warned that graphic installers like the one in Mint or Ubuntu will choke with 384mb, if they can even start at all.
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