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Old March 30th, 2004, 12:57 AM
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I am trying out Lindows live before I go ahead and install Lindows4.5.335. It booted in win98se system with no problems. But it wont boot in my win2000 system. My AMD is is set up to boot from the cd rom. my intel isnt. I do not know how the change it to boot from a cd. anyhelp would be appriciated.

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Old March 30th, 2004, 01:19 AM
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In your system bios setup there is a setting for the boot sequence. How you get into that setup can be different depending on the system: on both of my Dell PCs I hit F2 while the very first screen shows up and has a blinking cursor, and in my old Compaq I needed to hold down F10 for 3 seconds during the beginning of the boot process.

If you can't find that 'magic key' then post more of your system specs and someone here will help you find it. If you don't get a lot of hits on this thread here in the Linux forum, let one of us moderators know and we can move this to the Hardware forum for you.
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Old March 30th, 2004, 01:29 AM
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I am running win2000pro sp4 on a P4 1.60 gig cpu 256 megs of ram PC800 rambus.
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Old March 30th, 2004, 01:34 AM
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is this a 'homebrew' pc or was it bought from a PC manufacturer?
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Old March 30th, 2004, 01:40 AM
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Actully it is a clone. It was bult for the company I worked for. They ordered to many so I bought this from them. It was bult by a small PC shop here in S. Florida
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Old March 30th, 2004, 02:32 AM
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I guess it was a stupid guestion nobody can help or dont want to. I will try the win2000section

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Old March 30th, 2004, 02:47 AM
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I guess it was a stupid guestion nobody can help or dont want to. I will try the win2000section

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nah, not a stupid question at all. I myself don't know how to have you get the right key sequence. And it may take a bit of time for someone to come along with an answer. relax a bit, and give people a chance to read your post. Forums like CTH have members from all over the world so it is not always busy at the same times.
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Old March 30th, 2004, 02:57 AM
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I am just a little impatiant. sorry its that I have wanting to try linux for along time. And now that I have 5 linux os's. I just want to try it out, just like a kid with a new toy.

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Old March 30th, 2004, 02:58 AM
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Well I see that you went and posted the same issue in the Win2000 forum.....posting the same issue in multiple forums is not a good way of ensuring success for you, it will confuse others who will post replies and help you with your issue.

I understand that you would be excited to try out Linux....but I must warn you of something right away....Linux, is currently not something that will satisfy those that are impatient, it is however a strong operating system that is stable and will provide many options, but again, it will take some care.
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Old March 30th, 2004, 03:57 AM
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It's not a question of windows 2000, just a question of getting into the BIOS.
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Old March 30th, 2004, 01:09 PM
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***closing this thread due to the duplicate in the Hardware forum***

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