[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk installation

[Anders Svensson]

It seems that it must be the cd that is bad. The Dell has an option to hit
F12 to manually decide bootmedia. But even if I choose the cd nothing
happens. It works with other bootable cd's without problem. 
I have never done a bootable cd before and now I am not sure if I do right.

What emulation shall I have? None or harddrive? I have done both but same
result

I have burnt both with Nero And Easy CD creator. Lot of wasted cd's. :-))

Thankful for all help!!!

Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Colin Anderson
Sent: den 28 september 2005 22:49
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk installation

Actually with Optiplexes (Optipii?) they have a hidden partition on the HDD
that runs the <F2> setup, if the HDD was formatted you're hooped for F2
setup.

The key combination you are looking for is <ctrl><alt><f8> which allows you
to manually specify boot media during POST before the OS starts loading. Be
quick, 'cause these things boot fast. 

hth

-----Original Message-----
From: Cory Andrews [mailto:Cory at VOIPSupply.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:37 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk installation


Try going into the BIOS and changing the boot order so your CD-Rom drive 
is first in the boot sequence. Make sure your IDE cable on the CDRom is 
not loose, and make sure it is jumpered properly as a slave on your 
primary IDE BUS, or master on your secondary IDE BUS.

When you reboot, you should at least see the led light up on the CD-Rom 
and it should spin up, if it's doing both those things and still not 
booting, you probably have a bad CD, or a defective ROM Drive.

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Anders Svensson wrote:
>
> Here comes a newbi question.
>
> I have got a used Dell Optiplex GX240 P4 1.7 Ghz with 512 Ram. I have 
> downloaded Asterisk at Home and burnt a bootable CD. But the Computer 
> doesn't start the installation.
>
> What can be wrong? The computer is empty with anything on the harddrive.
>
> Is it something wrong with the CD or something else.
>
> Please help
>
> ANders
>
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