On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:55 am, 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
Ummm, first of all, please set your mailer to plain text messages. I had to retrieve yours from trash (i do scan trash for newbie messages), but that is where html mail from all the lists I am a member of goes first. We need to know more about your hardware. Since you are installing win95 it appears you may have an older computer, and there may be specific dodges or an older distro to employ to make that work. So--we need to know your memory, your processor, and any information you can find about your motherboard chipset or video card... It could be one of the older motherboards whose Basic Input-Output System(BIOS) misreports the memory map to the OS, and the latest linux kernels now trust the BIOS unless you override at install time by pressing F1 and then typing linux mem=xyM where xy is whatever memory you have less any memory shared for video less perhaps another MB which is used for ROMs and low memory when DOS/Windows boots. Civileme
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