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Nima Talebi
nima at it.net.au
Wed Aug 11 22:32:28 WST 2004
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:46, BART RAFFAELE wrote:
> 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
>
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