Ted; cdrom listed ahead of hard disk: yes I have tried lives disks ubuntu and mint new from os disks. here a few command line searches perhaps will give you more ideas. a@a-laptop:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 mnt [sudo] password for a: a@a-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c9cfd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 283731967 141864960 83 Linux /dev/sda2 304214014 312580095 4183041 5 Extended /dev/sda3 283731968 304211967 10240000 83 Linux /dev/sda5 304214016 312580095 4183040 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order a@a-laptop:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 mnt mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or mnt busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /home/a/mnt a@a-laptop:~$ wodim --devices wodim: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver! For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'. For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'. For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from the wodim documentation. a@a-laptop:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 149.1G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 135.3G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 9.8G 0 part /home └─sda5 8:5 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom a@a-laptop:~$ best,a On 06/06/2015 02:32 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
A., Have you tried F2 and the Boot menu to see if the CDROM is listed ahead of the hard disk? You might also give Removable Drive priority so that a usb stick could also be used for your boot up device. Anyway, make a few tries, I have found it may take four start ups on average to get the live/install process to work. Also check the install disk for scratches, as they do wear out eventually. Good luck. Ted P. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org