On Saturday 23 Aug 2003 9:44 pm, Claire Suttle wrote: > Hi, > > I've just downloaded the mandrake 9.1 ISO's, and I now want to install onto > a compaq armarda laptop. I'm having problems because I can't boot from > cd's, and the cd drive is interchangeable with the floppy drive. If I try > to boot from the floppy, then switch drives, the cd drive isn't recognised. > > I don't really want to copy the iso's to my hard drive and install from > there as i want to get rid of windows completely on the laptop. > > I read somewhere that there was a way to make my hard disk bootable, then > browse to the cd and install from there, but I couldn't find any clear > instructions on how to do this - can anyone tell me how this is done? > > Otherwise, I can try installing over the network? Is it possible for me to > put the install cd in another machine in my house (all running win XP, with > static ip's) and install it over the network? I tried this just now, but > couldn't work out how to do it - does anyone know if this is a possibility? > > tia, > Claire
Yes you can do a network install. All you have to dois make a boot floppy as described here http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/install-bootdisk.html#id2888860 but instead of the the cdrom boot image described in the text use the network image you will find in /images/network.img on your install CD When you boot from the network image you will be prompted for the path to the install CDs. The network image will boot using ftp, or nfs. The network image does not give you the option of changing CDs, so the easiest solution is just to copy all 3 CDs into a folder on an ftp server. HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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