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Old 05-13-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Ancient Computer install problems
I am currently trying to install DSL on my 13 year old Gateway 2000 with:
100 Mhz Pentium Processor
64 MB RAM
6x CD Drive
3 1/2" Floppy Drive
6.4 GB Hard Drive

It currently has Windows 98.

I made a boot disk and when i placed it in the drive and restarted, it froze in the bios and made a beeping sound every 5 seconds.

what do you think is the problem and how can i fix it?
i want to completely remove windows.

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hi,

what bios do you have?

you need to go to the bios maker homepage(if ever the bios maker does care about that bios anymore as its a very old one) and check the bios beep code to see what the error is
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i figured out the problem, turns out my boot floppy was bad but so was my cd.
so i'm going to try and run ubuntu on it
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How did you burn CD? .iso images are bootable by default. Select Burn Image to Disk option in your CD Burner package. Do not create bootable CD.
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i burned the cd by using iso burner

my BIOS didnt support the use of CDROM to run an OS from
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