difficulty loading Windows XP on a machine with Unix

[Guest]

Struggling loading the original XP disk on HW that was configured with Unix
OS. HW surpasses XP requirements.
I've reset my BIO's to look at the CD drive (first) on boot-up. I put the
original XP CD in the drive and reboot. The system spins up the CD (light
flashes, hums for a few seconds) but the SW does NOT appear to load. After
a few moments the Unix login prompt appears. If I login I'm back in, I'm
sitting in unix. Please advise.
Thanks

 

[Malke]

Struggling loading the original XP disk on HW that was configured with Unix
OS. HW surpasses XP requirements.
I've reset my BIO's to look at the CD drive (first) on boot-up. I put the
original XP CD in the drive and reboot. The system spins up the CD (light
flashes, hums for a few seconds) but the SW does NOT appear to load. After
a few moments the Unix login prompt appears. If I login I'm back in, I'm
sitting in unix. Please advise.
Thanks

Why are you starting a entirely new post about this when you have a very
long thread already going about this same issue. You've gotten lots of
answers already and posting again isn't going to get you any new ones.

If you can't boot from the CD when it is correctly set to do so, then
you have hardware issues. If you have two optical drives, try putting
the CD into the other drive. Or perhaps this is a Unix box someone gave
you that is unsuitable for XP and/or is specialized hardware and/or you
are overlooking some option in the BIOS that needs to be set. There is
no way that people who cannot see your machine can tell you.

If you still can't figure it out, take the machine to a computer
professional. This will not be your localized version of
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad.

If you want to continue asking questions about this issue, go back to
your original thread.

EOT for me.


Malke