[plug] New to the list& Linux+Help

[BART RAFFAELE]

On 11/8/04 2:30 PM, "Cameron Patrick" <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> James Devenish wrote:
> 
>>> when I switch on my PC it says initialising Plug and Play Cards....
>>> Card-01 Creative ViBRA16c PnP.
>> 
>> If you have some sort of Creative-brand card in our PC, doesn't the Plug
>> and Play message sounds like good news?? Or is your problem that you
>> don't have any such card? Or did you mean to say that the computer hangs
>> soon after printing that message?
> 
> I suspect that the machine hangs after printing the message.  My
> suspicion is that the installation died somewhere after it had
> formatted the drive and started installing software, but before it had
> installed the boot loader.  This there is nothing on the machine for
> it to boot.  (Unless the system was set up as a dual-boot Windows
> machine, in which case it may still be looking for something to boot
> from on the Linux partition and not finding anything.)
> 
> I'd suggest re-installing from scratch.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
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Yes you are right I got as far as setting up the printing stage.

So how do I reinstall from scratch
What keys do I use to boot from the cd if that¹s possible.
 it hangs on the message initialising Plug and Play Cards....
>>> Card-01 Creative ViBRA16c PnP

Thanks

Bart