[KLUG Members] New to os with boot up question...

[Jamie McCarthy]

david2@thulinfamily.com writes:

> Now here's the funny thing, the first time I tried to instal
> Linux, it wouldn't work at all... it would say something like
> "system error, insert systed CD and hit enter". But then I
> installed it by putting the hard-drive on another computer and
> it installed. When I put it back on my computer and
> re-configured the sound and video card, and that's when the
> Graphic display never showed.

Linux installation is going to go more smoothly if you can do the
install on the actual computer you're going to use it on.  (Heck,
Windows XP wouldn't even let you switch hard drives like that --
anyone whose machine changes that radically must be a software
pirate!  :)

If this is possible, I'd suggest next time swapping the CD drive
instead of the hard drive.  I don't know what the "system error"
you were getting was, but maybe your CD just couldn't be read by
that one CD-ROM.
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg