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UBUNTU 8.10 Live Version - Intrepid IBEX (in the LINUX Special 03 issue)
Marcel Gagne
Mar 12, 2009 11:27pm GMT
I must have missed something somewhere. I bought the LINUX Special 03 issue with the UBUNTU DVD in it so that I could try it. My box doesn't see the DVD. Even with the boot sequence set to read the DVD drive first, all that happens is that boot time is extended for the extra seconds the system takes to decide there isn't a DVD to read from. I am running from an older, homebuilt XP system. Does anyone have any suggestions, as I would really like to see UBUNTU on my machine.
Thanks, Philip at phclark3@verizon.net
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UBUNTU 8.10 Live Version - Intrepid IBEX (in the LINUX Special 03 issue)
Marcel Gagne Mar 12, 2009 11:27pm GMT
I must have missed something somewhere. I bought the LINUX Special 03 issue with the UBUNTU DVD in it so that I could try it. My box doesn't see the DVD. Even with the boot sequence set to read the DVD drive first, all that happens is that boot time is extended for the extra seconds the system takes to decide there isn't a DVD to read from. I am running from an older, homebuilt XP system. Does anyone have any suggestions, as I would really like to see UBUNTU on my machine.Thanks, Philip at phclark3@verizon.net