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Answer» Gateway 7330gz notebook I can download the various ISO's here on the notebook & save them in various placesYou need to burn the ISO to CD or DVD, using an appropriate burning program to create a bootable disc. One I've used is ImgBurn. Once you've made your bootable disc, you may need to access your BIOS settings and set CD-ROM as the initial boot device. In other words, you need to boot from the CD/DVD, not from your hard drive.The notebook doesn't have a working CD DVD player so that's not an optionThen i suggest Installation From USB Stick the bios doesn't support from USB which is why I've had to resort to using a HDD adapter which isn't quite getting me there no sound!See http://support.gateway.com/s/USB/5502664/5502664faq18.shtml, titled How do I create a bootable USB Flash Drive?Requires a windows partition & to be able to boot from USB neither of which are avaiable I have 9.10 on a 8g stick & turned off all the boot options, still no joySorry, but I don't have any further suggestions. Let's see whether someone else can chime in.Thanks for the effort It isn't the run of the mill install Maybe try installing from over the internet. It's a bit complicated but it is the only way unless maybe with a floppy drive. http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08/install-any-linux-distro-directly-from.htmlThank I book MARKED that I burned a couple of disc's & installed a dual boot of mint9 & 9.10. the weirdness of my install was compounded by a setting that missing in BIOs being missing, causing me to have to boot in recovery mode once I upgraded to the 10.04lts I still didn't have any sound, & was running through the steps [troubleshooting sound] on 10.04 & froze up, I rebooted into mint [same cpu security fault] recovery & had sound been using it for a bout 3 days So far I like mint very much better menus all the stuff from unbuntu works I've got a couple of 5g partitions for each OS & a 140g logical for files so I should be able to use that little bit you gave me to do some more test [DISTROS] drives... Quote from: Garthhh on May 22, 2010, 07:47:20 AM I burned a couple of disc's & installed a dual boot of mint9 & 9.10.I thought your DVD drive was not working. Quote from: Garthhh on May 22, 2010, 07:47:20 AM So far I like mint very muchWell Mint is basically Ubuntu with custom menu (called the MintMenu) and pre-installed proprietary multimedia codecs. It uses the same package repositories and everything else. That is the advantage to Mint. The advantage to Ubuntu is that is is much more stable than Mint.the CD/DVD on the notebook doesn't work I installed th HDD on my ol pentium III pc & set up a dual boot before reinstalling in my notebook I've actually had the opposite experience with mint, my unbuntu seems to freeze after a reboot on 10.04 or mint I get a black screen, when I boot into recovery I get prompted to run /usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose which gives me this This CPU is family 15, model 4, and has NX capabilities but is unable to use these protective features because the BIOS is configured to disable the capability. Please enable this in your BIOS. For more details, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/CPUFeatures This notebook has an american megatrends bios, but I can't update as it is unique to gateway & lacking any windows OS I can't update through the gateway site absolutely everything is enabled on every tab in bios I can boot in recovery in something described low resolution mode, I can't see any difference after a few days of switching back & forth between mint9 & 10.04lts, mint is giving me less trouble 10.04 seems to freeze from time to time & won't come back without a reboot Quote from: Garthhh on May 22, 2010, 07:52:51 PM absolutely everything is enabled on every tab in biosThat is not necessarily a good thing. There are some things in the BIOS that are better to have disabled. And personally I hate American Megatrends. The BIOs is the short version, no cpu temp, no flash, probably some other stuff missing too I suppose a few extra screens is the price I have to pay I've never had decent support from Gateway, I'll certainly never buy anything new from them, Silly thing is almost as bad as a dell... |
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