Difficulties with Mandrake 10 installation.

[Moadib 0]

Hi,

 

I'm a newbie with Linux and I'm trying to install Mandrake 10 from the download version available on their site.

 

I first made a mistake when copying the files, so I pretty much downloaded the whole 3gig content...

 

Here's where I'm a bit confused, in their documentation, they suggest to burn the ISO file on a cd and, once booted up with the cd, to follow the instructions for the installation.

 

I found a Linux ISO file and made a boot cd out of it. I booted up my system with it and it brought up the Mandrake installation window. So far so good... At some point, it's asking me to choose from where I want to install Mandrake (CD,HD, FTP, HTTP...), so I picked CD, thinking that it's what I burnt on it, but it's coming back saying that there's no Mandrake installer on the cd. (?!?)

 

Okay, since I downloaded all the files already, I then decided to choose my HD as the location to find the Mandrake installer, but same type of message came up. It then asked if I wanted to install some drivers from a floppy, which I canceled, and then it finished with a message saying that there was an error because of a wrong file system...

 

My system is already running XP on a 13gig NTSF partition. The whole HD is about 60gig, but only the XP partition is formated...

 

I also tried with a a boot cd on which I burned the cd-rom boot image file, but it did the same exact thing than the first one.

 

I did some research, to find out what I was doing wrong, and found some install instructions for Mandrake 9.2. In there, they mentionned to use the ISO files called

Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso

Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso

Mandrake92-cd3-i18n.i586.iso

 

Each files are about 650mb... (at least the cd 1)

 

The ISO file that I have in the Mandrake 10 folder is less than 8mb, so I would imagine that there's a lot missing in that file, and I can't find any equivalent ISO files to the version 9.2 in the Mandrake 10 installation folder.

 

Now, can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is that because I'm burning the wrong files or point to a wrong direction when it's asking for the installation files?

 

I'm about to try to install Mandrake 9.2 since I found, what I think, are the full ISO files, but I would prefer to install the latest version...

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

- Moadib

[SoulNothing 0]

okay

what speed did you burn the cds because i learned its wise to burn them at the slowest speed possible on your drive

next

 

if all else fails you can try to redownload the files

http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17273&sid=546b1e5bae497c53b7eb28184c85328a heres a site with some more ftps

 

i know ive never been asked what format will you install them from but thats common i really like mandrake 10 ce and thats my primary os

 

so um you can try mandrake 9.2 but i heard of stability issues so um burning speed and maybe some harware specs so we can get you the right distro to use

especially for internet connection

[danleff 0]

Sounds like you burned a boot image, not the installation iso's. You need to get the iso files from a mirror, such as HERE

 

Look for the Mandrake-Linux-10.0-Community-Download-cd1.iso and so forth. The size is just about 695 mb apiece.

 

There are three installations cd's.

 

DO NOT make a boot image in your burning software. Make sure that you choose the option to "burn image" as SoulNothing stated, at 4X or 8X, not the full capacity of your cdrw drive.