Mandrake 9.0 on windows

[Roughedge]

Hi. This is the first time I have even thought about linux and after doing a bit of reading I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 . My problem is that I copied it onto a cd using Easy Cd Creator and when I tried to boot the computer using the cd it doesnt read it. I know it works, and I have no idea what the problem is.

Anyone advise?

[fancypiper]

Somehow, you extracted the files before you burnt them, so they aren't bootable.

Re-burn the CDs, making sure you burn the *.iso files as images. See your CD burning software help file.

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[viperlin]

sounds stupid but it happened to me before

enabled boot from CD in bios?

[Roughedge]

Cd boot is enavbled and I have copied my download as an image file and I have copied it as an image file and it still wont boot frmo it. I am running Win ME and I have my whole hard drive partioned to it. I have checked out Mandrakess homepage and it doesnt help much at all. Oh and my floppy disk drive doesnt work so I cant creat a boot disk. Again any help would be much appreciated

[viperlin]

i have an idea

when u burnt the ISO make sure you did it the corect way and not the foolproof way

hence check the CD label is correct

other than that i dunno, must be a mistake u made or summut

[fancypiper]

WindowsXP uses the NTFS filesystem and I'm not sure you can shrink it like you can a FAT32 filesystem. You may want to get another hard drive to install Linux on.

Otherwise, look forward to creating a NTFS for WindowsXP, a FAT32 partition for read/write between Linux/Windows and room for Linux.

Did the md5sum check good?

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[Nu-Bee]

Originally posted by Roughedge
Hi. This is the first time I have even thought about linux and after doing a bit of reading I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 . My problem is that I copied it onto a cd using Easy Cd Creator and when I tried to boot the computer using the cd it doesnt read it. I know it works, and I have no idea what the problem is.

Anyone advise?

Easy Cd Creator is funny, I have had the same problem with it. For some reason it makes it very confusing as to HOW to burn an ISO & make it a bootable ISO. It wants to copy then all as files...complete with directories...but won't boot.

I finally went to Nero and all my troubles went away. :)

I haven't used Easy Cd Creator for a long time so I can't try walking you through the process. But, I will tell you...it's worth doing.

There -is- a way to do it in Easy Cd Creator but you'll have to look around.

[fancypiper]

Browse through these google hits (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Easy+Cd+Creator+burn+iso+as+image&btnG=Google+Search). They look promising.

[Roughedge]

Thanks guys! Finally got linux up and running and am now on the net. Still getting used to it but im loving every minute of it. Thanks for helping me persevere and learn the world outside of microsoft.
Cheers again.

[Roughedge]

erm..sorry to bother u all again. I realise this might not be the right question for this forum. I have a .tgz file and i was wondering how to open it and install.
Any post welcome

Cheers

[fancypiper]

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