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I am trying to install mandrake 10.1 on an empty computer with no windows, when i install first disc i get that the keyboard is detected, the hard disk, and the cd drive, then floppy a installed,then it says error loading operating system, this machine will not allow me to set it up to boot off the cd drive, and i cannot access the dosutils file on the first mandrake disk to rawrite? create a floppy to boot it, i am borrowing an old windows 95 canon laptop with only a floppy drive, so i cannot put the cd in it, please help, is anyone using mandrake 10.1 that can possibly make me a boot floppy and e-mail it to me? or does anyone know where i can download the 10.1 bootfloppy to this so i can put it in my other computer, i have to give this computer back soon, so i need to get mine going, i look forward to seeing your posts, if anyone can make me one send it to puglife426@yahoo.com, happy new year to all..

yes, i am trying to install it on my desktop, i am borrowing this old canon laptop from a friend, the desktop was given to me, it used to have windows 2000 nt on it but has been f/disk'd and has nothing on it now, this is all he wrote down before he gave it to me, microsoft windows 2000 professional, type x-86 based pc, processor x86 family 5 stepping 12, genuine intel-133 total physical memory 81.460 kb- total virtual memory48.716 i think that was when it had windows, it has 1.2 gig hard drive, the other person that posted gave me two sites, so i downloaded rawrite, and downloaded the cdrom.img on there, and made a floppy it did not work, i also downloaded one that had a december date, still did not work, i get the error saying to use a newer kernal,any ideas? do you think i should find a floppy based distro with networking, and get it back online and download a distro from one of the mirror sites, instead of using these disks from the magazine, linux user & developer magazine, any suggestions on a distro that would work good for a newbie like me? i am open to any suggestions, i just want to get my computer running,

yes, i am trying to install it on my desktop, i am borrowing this old canon laptop from a friend, the desktop was given to me, it used to have windows 2000 nt on it but has been f/disk'd and has nothing on it now, this is all he wrote down before he gave it to me, microsoft windows 2000 professional, type x-86 based pc, processor x86 family 5 stepping 12, genuine intel-133 total physical memory 81.460 kb- total virtual memory48.716 i think that was when it had windows, it has 1.2 gig hard drive, the other person that posted gave me two sites, so i downloaded rawrite, and downloaded the cdrom.img on there, and made a floppy it did not work, i also downloaded one that had a december date, still did not work, i get the error saying to use a newer kernal,any ideas? do you think i should find a floppy based distro with networking, and get it back online and download a distro from one of the mirror sites, instead of using these disks from the magazine, linux user & developer magazine, any suggestions on a distro that would work good for a newbie like me? i am open to any suggestions, i just want to get my computer running,

thanks, i am not sure when the build is, my friend gave it to me, it looks like it came from a linux magazine, when it first starts it says welcome to mandrke linux (10.1) october 11 2004, if you find anything please let me know, i would appreciate it, cruising the web with this old canon laptop is a very slow process indeed,

Thanks for the post, i made a floppy from that site, and actually got it to do something, then i got this, i will put it all down, because i am sure anyone reading this will understand it better than me, An error occurred, cant acces kernal modules corrosponding to your kernal file, (file/lib/modules.cz-2.6.8.1-12mdkBOOT is missing), it also says this generally means your boot floppy is not in sync with the installation medium, Please create a newer boot floppy, oh, man, right when i was getting excited watching it start to work, any ideas all? sorry about the long postings,