My gosh, what a helpful bunch you all are! This is a general reply to everyone who has answered this - just so there's some background to go with ..
I have my CD at the top of the boot list. All cables and connections are good. I am able to boot from a floppy. I cannot boot from ANY bootable CD. I can access the CD's once I've booted from the floppy. I did create a bootable flopy with Linux, using the cdrom.img. Was able to boot up and start the installation, but computer rebooted mid-process (see my first post for the results - they weren't good! Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: > > Hi, > > > > No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is > > the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a > > stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much appreciated at > > this point. > > > > Diane > > No Diane. You only get to the hard drive MBR after bypassing the CD > bootup step. But if you can't boot from *any* bootable CD, no matter > whether it is Windows or Linux, then something is wrong with the > hardware (assuming that the BIOS is correctly set up). > > Given that it is a new computer, I would take it back to the store and > ask for another one. Carry the Windows and Mandrake boot CDs to show > them the problem. > > Good luck! of course we could teach you how to do it from booting with a boot disk you can create from the CDroms,,, if we want, and if you can boot up from a cdrom ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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