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http://askubuntu.com – I am having issues installing 12.10 on a laptop from bootable USB Drive 4GB FAT32. Also I changed order on BIOS to boot from USB. But only I see is the black screen with SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 4.06-pre7 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 H. Peter Anvin et al _ I tried to install 12.10 into my older laptop using the same bootable USB drive just to be sure, and it's all works fine! I have also trying different USB drives, but results were the same. So it looks like there is nothing wrong with my bootable USB drives. Something is wrong with my laptop, but I can't figure out what exactly, because it's very (HowTos)

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Hi,

Firstly, please excuse the naivety of my post but I am finding this whole thing a bit confusing!

My old laptop has died on me (Windows had a major seizure) - the hard drive is okay but the CD drive no longer works. I have taken out the hard drive and reformatted it.

My laptop, an older Toshiba A100-250, won't boot from a CD or DVD when the HD is attached.

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Despite all efforts, it still won't boot from a bootable CD or DVD.

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