Forget Hardy

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Thu Jun 12 15:30:09 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Res wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> since I was right and you 
>>>>> dont want to look at it from any other angle than what suits your own list
>>>>> nazi mates, I *will* end my participation in the thread, 
>>>>>         
>>>     Well this thread has been right for my computer. I have tried to 
>>> load hardy 5 times and every time it errors out and just drops back to 
>>> the CD. I will stop now and wait for the next version. There may be 
>>> something wrong with my computer, but the 7.10 CD loads just like it did 
>>> a year ago.
>>>     
>> You have a propensity for declaring the problem to be X instead of 
>> asking...but, you DID run an MD5 sum on the downloaded file to make sure 
>> you didn't corrupt the download, yeah?
>>
>>   
>     I ran the cd test that is on the cd. It said it was fine. In fact 
> both of my cd's pass the test.

Just in case, and since it only takes a few minutes to do, run the MD5 
sum against your .iso image and compare it to the website's stated MD5.

The usual checklist...BIOS is set to boot from CD...

You're saying it's *starting* to boot from the CD, then quits? So this 
confirms that the computer sees it and starts booting from it?

I don't know what you mean when you say that it "drops back to the CD".




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