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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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