Anybody tried this?
I have a spare battered old Easyone silver laptop, half the keys dont work due to the mainboard being knackered apparently. I can run it ok with a usb keyboard though. As an experiment and to further my knowledge I have decided to offer it up as a sacrificial lamb and try installing another OS on it.
I have downloaded and burned to cd the 700mb ubuntu installer. I have binned all the junk on the HD and defragged it and then set startup from CD-ROM in the bios. It still starts up in windows though even though the CD rom is in the drive. I know the drive is already partitioned so it can be revovered via 3.5 floppy and I know I will have to add more partitions / swap file etc as part of the ubuntu install. Does anybody have any idea why I cannot get it to boot from cd at the moment?
So much for being experimental and falling at the first hurdle
Cheers