On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hevnsnt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 6:57
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Doc
>
> If your system does not support booting off a CD-ROM, you can easily make
> a boot disk that will do the exact same thing. To make your boot disk,
> boot your computer and insert your Mandrake CD-ROM. Insert a blank floppy
> into the floppy drive and type "X:\dosutils\rawrite" (without the quotes
> and X: being your CD-ROM drive letter). When asked which image to use type
> "X:\images\boot.img" (without the quotes and X: being your CD-ROM drive
> letter) This will make the boot disk that you can use to start the install
> package.
>
> -Bill
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Iulian Ungureanu wrote:
>
> > No John, a friend of mine who has @home downloaded both 6.0 and
> > burned 2 disks for me.I'll have to go and make sure my BIOS supports
> > booting from CD-ROM. Otherwise, I need to make boot floppy.
> > That's why I need to know a place I can print out the installation step-
> > by-step.
> > Thanks,
> > Julian
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:46 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Doc
> > >
> > > On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > > No, I've installed COL1.3 .
> > > > I have RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.0 on disks.
> > > > I've decided to go for Mandrake because I like how it sounds -
> hehehe -
> > > and
> > > > also I've heard that it is very close to Red Hat.
> > > >
> > > Ok...well, it's pretty much "stick the CD in the drive and
> > > boot off the CD" or run the install program off the CD
> > > after booting from the included boot floppy (your distro
> > > DID include a boot floppy, right?)
> > > John
> >
