10Mhz

Quote: Originally posted by Kupo Yes yes, I believe martouf and 10mhz are very right! What you told me to do 10 mhz was already done! And it is a rar type file. ok great; keep us posted.

Quote: Originally posted by martouf: danleff - a one point kupo said the downloaded file was a "rar" file. Sound like an archive format file to me, not an ISO image file. If so, then YES kupo, you need to extract the ISO image file from whatever archive it is in. You must have the ISO image to burn your disc. Actually an .iso file can have a file assosiation to a rar program and any .iso files will appear with the rar icon in windows XP. Kupo, To exactly figure out what is the file extension do the following: Open My Computer or any other window, At the top in the View tab choose Folder Options and On the rightest tab, I think where all of the options boxes find the box saying (Hide file extensions for known file types) Uncheck this box. Chose ok. After you done this go to the file you wish to check and look at its name, if it ends with .rar follow martoufs advice and extract the .iso file outside of the .rar file. Otherwise you do not need to extract the file. Extracting it and burning it will simply make a copy of the extracted files on the disk and will not make it bootable. 10Mhz

If you burned the iso image correctly using the (burn image to cd function) and the cdrom reads the first cd in windows. I.e manages to recognize the existance of the disk. Try the following: Make a new bootable floopy instead of mandrakes with: Smart Boot Manager http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm Use the sbootmgr.dsk floppy image, write to floppy with rawwrite program. You will not be able to access the floppy from the windows. 1. Insert the first Linux Mandrake 10.0 installation cd into the cdrom. 2. Boot using the floopy image. 3. The disk should boot automatically. 4.Continue the setup normally. Worked for me with the same issue. Have a nice playing..

Hi Kupo, I had the same problem like many others out there booting from the Mandrake 10.0 installation Cdrom. Trying to boot from floppy with the cdrom.img provided on the mandrake cd did not help either. I have burned the iso images correctly, tryied to burn new disks with lower speeds x8, x16 and without luck. I thought the problem was in the cdrom being older than the cdburner and therefore could not boot from the cd. But, suprisingly the cdrom could read the disk and execute the installation in the windows environment. So the chance of bad burned cdrom was heavily reduced. Eventually it turned out to be a problem of booting mandrake cds on older bios systems and motherbord firmware. After long searching, in some distant linux forum some nice guy pointed me to the working solution. Smart Boot Manager http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm Use the sbootmgr.dsk floppy image provided with the rawwrite program available on the mandrake cd in the /dosutils directory to create a bootable floopy disk. Note: You will not be able to access the floppy from the windows. Its normal. Insert the first Linux Mandrake 10.0 installation cd into the cdrom. Boot using the floopy image and .... VIOLA! The disk should boot automatically. Continue the setup normally. Hope it will help all of those out there having the same frustrating problem. Im writing this post using Mandrakes Konqueror browser, so the method works. Btw, the operating system is totally great, hard a bit to use at the beginning when you lack of technical information and not used to it. But its definetly better than windows in many aspects, gives you a much bigger freedom, works faster than windows notably on the older pcs (I have a PIII 450).. anyway.. Good luck with the setup. 10Mhzbzzzz.. d;-)