cant boot from dvd to install.

[octavius]

hey i have a dell bios revision A02 and there is no option to boot from dvd and i have a dvd install of debian.is there any possible way for me to boot from that dvd and install?

please help so that i can finally install.thanks

[Acron_0248]

Well, if you give the exactly model of the bios would be more easier to find out

But, in the case that there's no Access key to the Boot promt function (give u' the possibility to "X" media to boot, floppy, hard, cdrom, dvdrom...) you can access to the Bios Setup and there change the device boot priority where you will have to configurate the bios for the DVD-rom will be the first boot device


Reegards


Bye

[octavius]

when i try to configure the boot options in my bios the only options to boot from are:

onboard sata hard drive
onboard or usb flash drive
onboard or usb cd rom
onboard ide hard drive
onboard or usb floppy


if i set the cd rom to first it wont boot and if i set anything else first it wont boot either
and how can i go about finding what bios i have exactly?all it says is dell bios revision A02,.

thanks for the reply

[Hax-X]

if you have an external dvd drive or a ide enclosure that will accept an optical device you could try that or of course one you could borrow.

There are of course daemons you can use inside of windows if you intend on a dual boot. which i personally havent even bothered trying as that my notebook and all my pc's will boot from CD/DVD bays.

this i have done on my mothers dell of the same version bios type I think.

Enjoy

[iwanabeguru]

Start the installer from floppy disk.

have fun!

[newbie_sarah]

hey i have a dell bios revision A02 and there is no option to boot from dvd and i have a dvd install of debian.is there any possible way for me to boot from that dvd and install?

please help so that i can finally install.thanks

I had this same problem but it is now resolved. You must first make sure that the CDROM (or DVD if available) is your primary boot in your bios. Considering that it is, and you are trying to read from a DVD with a DVD reader, the problem is the disk. Although the ISO is on the disk, it has burnt as a regular file. ISO files are images of complete CD compiles as one whole image. In my experience I was installing over a version of windows, and installing Fedora 8. I had to burn the disk on windows, and so I downloaded this program because windows standard software will not burn it correctly:

ISO Recorder v 2

Information on how it works is available here (I advise - not standard):
How to Write ISO Files to CD

I am sure that there is a simple way to write ISO files to disk using Linux, but I was not lucky enough at the time.