-  booting from a CD

- starting from DOS

-  or even using actual 3.5 or even 5 1/4 inch older format floppy discs

now with more modern , more up to date and powerful computers the options have increased with the advent of integrated powered USB drives.

As well the actual size of the installation program and programs have increased greatly in size , functions and overall complexity.

Wit these powered USB hubs, and the wrath of new available media , that has also come down vastly in price while increasing exponentially in sizes have increased the options of boot devices for installs as well as the overall Linux install convenience.   These include – flash drives , external cd/dvd drives to a great degree ( if will work when powered up and attached to the booting computer- not all seem to be supported , there does not seem to a CD/ DVD reader standard for this ) , flash drives , other flash memory formats such as SD and “Flash ” cards if a reader is built into the computer or a usb based convertor available, and external USB hard drives , or even other hard drives attached to the IDE or Sata connectors on the  computer motherboards.

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Ubuntu 9.04 sound problems – Linux Forums – When I run “sudo aptitude install linux-ubuntu–modules-`uname -r` linux-generic”, it looks like it does not install anything, because I get this message: Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched … It references adding options to alsa-base.conf for the snd-intel8xo. I tried his solution and added this: “options snd-intel8×0 ac97_quirk=3″, but it did not do anything. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. mrs1179 is offline. Looking for Linux Hosting? …

Of course the correct or appropriate boot device must be chosen in the bios of the computer on which the Linux distro is to be installed.

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Installs can be done by any of a number of means . The most common currently is from a CD or DVD into an optical drive that can read it. For example if the install is larger one – then a dvd rather than CDRom might be used. DVD readers and burners can read both CDs and DVDs wheras the converse is not true. A Cd reader or burner can not read a DVD .

CDs hold 640 mb of capacity. This is equivalent to 640 old 1 mb capacity floppy discs. A DVD generally holds approx 4.4 gb ( 1000 mb ) of data. A DVD holds the equivalent data of almost 7 (seven ) CDs. It used to be that CDS were run of the mill and blank DVDs were a lot more expensive – both the blank and by equivalent capacity. However this is not the case now. A blank DVD is approx the cost of a CD. However DVDs are less durable and more easily scratch able. One little scratch on a DVD can mean a whole wasted exercise of doing the Linux install. Worse than that the failure from the media install disc can happen right at the end of the process – having you scratch your head at the wasted time.

CDs are more durable. However in the summer time just a little bit of deposited dirt or grime can cause the same Linux OS install failure as that of the DVD. The answer – simply wipe the CD clean with water – a bit of soap if necessary. Wash the CD clearly – especially the downwards side which is the side which gets read by the optical drive reader. Most important dry both sides of the media – but with a very soft towel or even sock. Do not use a paper towel or tissue. This may scratch the install media.

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