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river-rat
25-03-14, 15:46
been trying to install Linux on a new machine i was given

it had win7 on it, has 8gb of ram and a sata drive

i have tried 4 hard drives, two dvd players and keep getting a error

unable to find a media containing a live file system

downloaded 3 copy's of linux as well as even tried a Debian which it stops at cd room install

googled, says to do with sata drivers, but i have tried 2 diff sata drives and also ide drives

rossi2000
25-03-14, 15:56
try installing it with a usb pen using pendrive linux or unetbootin.

river-rat
26-03-14, 21:13
sorted it, was infact a dodgy dvd drive, weird as it installed win7 ok