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Re: Linux Mint 13 `Maya' Released I'm no expert, but I highly doubt it's the NV causing the problem.
I've never had a *nix desktop fail in the last decade because I had a NV card, in fact the opposite is usually true, meaning onboard vid, etc.
More likely it's failing on a windows modem or other proprietary Dell hardware. If you give us specific models, I'm sure we can help ya. I have several myself of that vintage. 
Not booting could mean it's not setup to boot from CD in the BIOS, you burned a DVD and that drive cant read DVD's, or you burned it at a rate higher than an old drive can handle. I always burn ISO's at 4x for that reason.
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AZinOH
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1 edit | said by caffeinator:I'm no expert, but I highly doubt it's the NV causing the problem.
I've never had a *nix desktop fail in the last decade because I had a NV card, in fact the opposite is usually true, meaning onboard vid, etc.
More likely it's failing on a windows modem or other proprietary Dell hardware. If you give us specific models, I'm sure we can help ya. I have several myself of that vintage.
Not booting could mean it's not setup to boot from CD in the BIOS, you burned a DVD and that drive cant read DVD's, or you burned it at a rate higher than an old drive can handle. I always burn ISO's at 4x for that reason.
Or, the drive can't read burnt discs at all. The 07 Dell XPS 400 currently has XP SP3/Ubuntu 10.10 and has a GE Force 7300LE. The 08 Dell Inspiron 530 currently has Vista/10.04 and has a GE Force 8300 GS. Both drives have been reading/burning other CDs & DVDs just fine. I always burn at 4X and other images that I've burned to CDs boot just fine on both machines. Is there something different about burning an iso to a DVD that I haven't learned yet? |
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 misiek
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Round Lake, IL | @AZinOH,
If you have a 2 GB USB pendrive available, you could 'burn' the Mint ISO to it and try to boot your PC this way. Google for Unetbootin app if interested. |
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kudos:1 | said by FiReSTaRT:That's how I do all of my installs. Don't trust optical media. I usually find optical media works fine as long as you burn it at low speeds, and if you don't use super cheap discs that are somewhat flimsy.
With that said, here's unetbootin. »unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ |
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| said by grunze510:I usually find optical media works fine as long as you burn it at low speeds, and if you don't use super cheap discs that are somewhat flimsy.
With that said, here's unetbootin. »unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
USB flash is faster, more reliable and reusable. Much more practical solution from every standpoint.
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