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    booting from cd

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jeremytaylor, May 20, 2005.

  1. jeremytaylor

    jeremytaylor Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everybody,
    Well after playing with my new w3v for a week and being very content with it I'm ready to break it by installing linux. Slight problem, I can't figure out how to get it to boot from CD. I went into the BIOS and the boot order suggests the removable drive (I assumed this was the DVD/CD) was in first place but it still just boots of the HD.

    Any suggestions?

    thanks
    Jeremy
     
    jeremytaylor, May 20, 2005
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    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Do you get a boot device menu when you press the Escape key during the initial boot (when the Asus logo is visible)?

    John
     
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    jeremytaylor Notebook Enthusiast

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    thank you!

    btw. Knoppix detects everything first time on this machine... very handy to know when eventually it does break :)

    Jeremy
     
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