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Re: I want to lose Lindows or "How to Install an OS"
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| To: hg <hg@bozo.net>
Reply-To: scorcora at NOSPAM wisc.edu
In alt.os.linux on Sun, 15 Dec 2002 at 02:23 GMT,
someone claiming to be hg wrote:
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> Good answer Bit.But since the problem seems to be with Lindows and I
> either need help uninstalling it or getting it to run a windows exe,I
> don't see how microsoft groups can help.
Just to sum up and clarify this all for you: No, winblowz groups probably
couldn't help you, this isn't a windoze OR a linux issue. It's hardware.
However, your problem is simple ignorance of basics on how a bootup goes, and
that's easy to fix.  Basically, there's something called the BIOS
(BuiltInOperatingSystem) that starts up when you turn on the power, and the
BIOS loads your operating system of choice, usually from your harddrive. Most
people have their BIOS set up to look in the cd-drive and the floppy drive,
and if those are empty, load from the harddrive, that way when/if they want to
install a new o/s or boot from floppy or CD, they can do it without a hassle.
If you boot up with the CD in the drive and it does NOT look at the cd drive,
see the CD, and go into a windows install sequence, what you need to do is
reboot again, watch the screen where it says "press <something> to enter
SETUP" or "press <something> for bios" or some message like that, push that
button, and look for a setting that tells it what order to look for things
in...don't worry too much about messing things up, I believe you have to SAVE
before it'll keep any changes you make, so if you think you messed it up, exit
without saving and try again. Explore, look around, just don't forget and hit
save on the way out.
Now, if it's loading from harddrive before it looks at the cdrom, you'll be
looking for a setting that might be called something like load sequence or
something similar, the current setting should be something like "c,cdrom,a" or
"c,a,cdrom". Follow the directions across the bottom, and change that setting
to cdrom,a,c or even a,cdrom,c ...just so long as the "cdrom" comes before the
"c", so in the future it'll always look at the cdrom before it boots from the
harddrive. (don't worry, it'll only matter if you have an operating-system CD
in the drive, forgetting your Quake CD or favorite music-CD won't matter)
Of course, if your only problem was not realizing you needed to boot up with
the CD in the drive, you can disregard my instructions, and I don't mind cuz
now that's one more thing that's spelled out in the Google archives for the
next newbie.
Luck,
sl
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| John Hasler 2002-12-19, 8:25 pm |
| sl writes:
> Basically, there's something called the BIOS (BuiltInOperatingSystem)...
Nope. Basic Input-Output System. It was supposed to provide a
standardized interface to the hardware.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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| In article <87d6nx4fz5.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler wrote:
> sl writes:
>> Basically, there's something called the BIOS (BuiltInOperatingSystem)...
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> Nope. Basic Input-Output System. It was supposed to provide a
> standardized interface to the hardware.
Eh, close enuf. BuiltInOperatingSystem is easier to remember. :P
sl
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