[Hudlug] toshiba laptop

[michael weaver]

no additional hardware was added to the laptop when i bought it.
it has default 150 to 250 gig hard drive and it has 4 gig ram.
it was being used as a demo machine in staples just like my 
previous laptop which was a compaq presario 140 which i bought 
from pc world.
i used the standard jaunty live cd but it wouldn't boot from the 
cd when i tried it.
someone suggested something like f12 left arrow and enter 
sometime during startup so it will boot to the live cd and 
someone else suggested i might need to alter something in toshiba 
setup in order to get it to boot from the drive which is not 
something which is practical as it requires sighted assistance 
which i unfortunately do not have most of the time and my family 
are not linux users.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: geoff <geoff at jazzyjeph.co.uk
>To: hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Date sent: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:55:29 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Hudlug] toshiba laptop

>Hi Michael
>The 3 hard drives you mention are probably partitions on your 
single
>drive.  Have you added anything to the laptop since buying it and 
is it a
>Vista cd/dvd you are trying to restore with.  Also when you say 
it won't
>run Ubuntu could you be more specific, is the disc recognised as
>bootable etc.
>Regards
>Geoff

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>> is there a lug meeting tomorrow at vox?
>> i ask because i have recently bought a new laptop.
>> it is a toshiba, not sure of the model number, it has 150 or 250
>> gb hard drive, i think there are 3 hard drives, one for vista
>> which came with the machine, a hard drive labelled data and a
>> third drive which i think contains the system defaults disk.
>> for some reason using system restore comes up with eror messages
>> when i tried to restore to some earlier version when i couldn't
>> remove an application using the uninstall or whatever from the
>> features menu which comes with vista.
>> i was actually told that the system could be restored with a 
ctrl
>> f12.
>> for some reason my cd of ubuntu jaunty won't run.
>> i know it has nothing to do with my lack of ram as it has 4 gig
>> of it.



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