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boot Up Wolfeymole, I went through the steps that were recommended. What I had to do was to hold DEL key down before I powered up the computer, then I went to the Dell Dimension 4100 setup screen. Across top of the screen came up: MAIN, ADVANCED,SECURITY,BOOT,EXIT Boot: 1st Boot device: (ATAPI CDROM) 2nd Boot device: Floppy 3rd Boot device: IDE-HDD 4th Boot device: Disabled If I read this right would I be able to boot up from CDROM? On the MAIN screen: Processor type: Intel ® Pentium® III Processor speed : 1 GHz System Bus Frequency: 133Mhz Is this system fast enough to run Linux? To your question as to what flavor Linux: SUSE Linux 10.

Boot Up Hi, everyone. I have a old computer with win98 I would like to change the operarating sytem to Linux. But I can not get to my setup screen, its like its been lock out. I try the DEL and F keys but it still goes to Window screen. The computer is in new condition it been in storage.

Thanks for your reply, but how do you get around this problem?

I was given a Dell Dimension w/win98 and I need to boot up from the CD drive, when I try to get to Bios setup utility the PC continued to start up Windows 98 from hard drive. I try the F keys it will not work. Can you get to the setup utility thru MSDOS and change the order of boot devices?:confused:

Hello, My name is steve, I,am 60 (feel like it anyway). I have basic knowledge,just like to learn more. Learn More, Steve