Diane; You need to make a small change in your BIOS so that the CDROM drive is the first to boot. After that, everything will work fine. Check your owner's manual, and look for information which tells you how to enter your BIOS. Once you get into the BIOS, you should be able to change the order of the boot drives so that your CDROm is the first. Re-Start your install from scratch, using the first Mandrake CD to boot from, and you shold be in good shape. You can leave your BIOS as is after the istall, but remember that and CD's which are "Bootable" will launch the system if you leave them in the CDROM drive when starting or rebooting. Otherwise, change your BIOS back to the original settings after you've completed the install.
Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/6/2003 at 12:55 PM Diane Arsenault wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to >install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so >far: >(Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) > >I created a 2 Gb primary Dos partition to install Win95 - all went well >with that. Since I cannot boot from my CD-ROM drive (don't know why), I >ran Win95, inserted Mandrake CD1in drive, get a setup screen offering >several options (install, use floppy, etc). When I click on the "Install >Mandrake" button, a message appears saying "your computer will reboot ... >installation will begin" (or to that effect). When I clicked "OK" - >nothing happened. > >SO ... I created a floppy, using the cdrom.img file, and tried that way. >Everything was going fine, then my computer rebooted diring the program >installation, and I get a message that it can't find the CD-ROM. Asks me >which driver to try. (I have NO idea). If I randomly choose a driver to >try (what the heck, aye), I get asked for kernel info. Well, now I'm just >lost. > >I'm sure at least one of you newbies must have had a similar problem?? >Would some kind sould please help me out? > >Diane Arsenault
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