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Seph64
10-31-2002, 11:15 PM
I had a friend burn me a batch of Mandrake 9 CDs (he burned me some Mandrake 8.2 CDs that worked earlier this year) when I insert the first CD, reboot and try to boot through the CDRom drive (yes, my BIOS supports it since that's how I installed 8.2) it just refuses to boot. I tried booting it through a floppy, but that didn't work neither. I tried copying the CD with my CD Writer. That didn't work. Then thought about installing it off the HDD, and that fails too. I can't do a network install since I am on dialup (hence the reason why I had a friend burn the CDs for me). The friend said that the CDs worked when he tested them. Any thoughts?
dkeav
11-01-2002, 12:57 AM
well considering i have three disks sitting in front of me that say mandrake 9.0 which i use as paper weights now
your freind may have had a brain fart burning them cause i did i fired up easycdcreator in xp and added the isos to the list and burned them well needless to say is all i did was burn the iso file on to the disk (NOT BOOTABLE)
have your friend double click on those iso files and it will open whatever program handles them and set it up to burn
a simple way to see if this is the problem is in windows or linux explore the cd and see whats on it if its an iso that is the problem if its a bunch of folders then possibly a corrupted download or other problems but i would try reburning the disks before getting too worried
Seph64
11-01-2002, 01:07 AM
Originally posted by dkeav
well considering i have three disks sitting in front of me that say mandrake 9.0 which i use as paper weights now
your freind may have had a brain fart burning them cause i did i fired up easycdcreator in xp and added the isos to the list and burned them well needless to say is all i did was burn the iso file on to the disk (NOT BOOTABLE)
have your friend double click on those iso files and it will open whatever program handles them and set it up to burn
a simple way to see if this is the problem is in windows or linux explore the cd and see whats on it if its an iso that is the problem if its a bunch of folders then possibly a corrupted download or other problems but i would try reburning the disks before getting too worried
It's not an ISO. And I hardly see if it could be a bad download if the CDs worked perfectly for him (he installed MDK 9 on his computer).
yosarian
11-01-2002, 01:29 AM
You said your bios supports booting to a cd, but is it set up to do it now? When I installed Mandrake 9.0, I first had to enter bios set up to select 'boot to cd' option or something like that . . .
Just a thought.
endoalpha
11-01-2002, 01:37 AM
A better explanation than 'it refuses to boot' or 'it didn't work' or 'that fails too' would be most helpful. Any error messages? What happens when you try to boot from floppy? What happens when you tried HD install?
Seph64
11-01-2002, 01:55 AM
Well when I try to boot from the floppy to intialise the CD-Rom drive for install. It says the CD is not an MDK Linux install CD. Dispite that it is a MDK CD.
HD says insert new disk and press any key when ready.
And yes it is set to boot from CD because I could acces the MDK 8.2 install CD.
endoalpha
11-01-2002, 03:22 AM
on the HD install, you copied the files off all 3 cd's to your harddrive right? Then you used rawwrite to make a hd.img boot floppy, right? Then you booted the floppy and it said "insert new disk and press any key when ready"? That really doesnt make sense. Doesn't the HD install floppy ask what partition the mandrake install stuff is in?
On the floppy boot cdrom.img install, you are sure you have mandrake cd1 in the drive?
Also, what happens when you try to boot off the cdrom? (mandrake disk1)?
Seph64
11-01-2002, 08:49 AM
Originally posted by endoalpha
on the HD install, you copied the files off all 3 cd's to your harddrive right? Then you used rawwrite to make a hd.img boot floppy, right? Then you booted the floppy and it said "insert new disk and press any key when ready"? That really doesnt make sense. Doesn't the HD install floppy ask what partition the mandrake install stuff is in?
On the floppy boot cdrom.img install, you are sure you have mandrake cd1 in the drive?
Also, what happens when you try to boot off the cdrom? (mandrake disk1)?
HD: Well I copied the first CD to the HD then used RawWrite to make a HD Boot Floppy.
CD: Yes.
NOTHING. When I select where I want to boot from, in this case MDK Disc 1, it asks to press F1 to retry or F2 to enter BIOS setup.
Seph64
11-01-2002, 09:32 AM
I made a small 5GB Fat32 Partition on my 2nd HDD copied all 3 CDs to the drive. Wrote a HD Boot disk. I got to the point where I had to point the computer to the Directory of the file needed to install MDK 9, but I still can't install. It keeps asking to be in the /Mandrake/base/ subdirectory dispite the fact that I am already there.
mdwatts
11-01-2002, 08:12 PM
Of the first Mandrake 9.0 boot/installation cd, can you actually see a filesystem on the cd (files and directories)?
Seph64
11-01-2002, 08:37 PM
Originally posted by mdwatts
Of the first Mandrake 9.0 boot/installation cd, can you actually see a filesystem on the cd (files and directories)?
Yes. But I am just going to buy the official MDK 9 CDs just as soon as MDK releases them.