May I suggest inserting your CD-ROM drive (with the Mandrake CD loaded).
Fire up your PC and go into the BIOS and make the system boot of the CD-ROM
first (there should be an option in your BIOS to change the boot options).
I don't know how your BIOS will list the device. The system should then
boot from your CD-ROM and then start the Mandrake installation.
Keep us posted,
Matt
>From: "Michael D. Kirkpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Install problems...
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:48:00 -0600
>
>I have a WinBook Laptop computer and I am trying to figure out how to
>install Mandrake RH6.0.
>
>I can not get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM drive.
>
>Here is what is going on...
>
>1. I insert the removable floppy drive and boot from the boot disk.
>2. When I get to the point where it asks me to pick which cd-rom drive
>to use, I remove the floppy drive and insert the cd-rom drive with the
>CD #1 in it.
>3. I went through the entire list for CD-ROM drivers and it can not
>find the cd-rom.
>4. It is not SCSI.
>
>I have an external CD-ROM drive as well that hooks up to the parallel
>port as well. I tried it and it can not be found. The CD-ROM is a
>"Backpack".
>
>I tried Fdisk the hard drive and copied the 9 files from the boot disk
>to it to see if it may be a problem from swapping the CD-Rom with the
>Floppy drive. I can not get it to boot from the hard drive. I fdisked
>the hard drive using DOS 6.0 fdisk utility and formatted it. I copied
>the boot disk to the hard drive and it would not boot from the hard
>drive.
>
>I just need to install Apache web server and X-Windows so I can show off
>a working copy of my web site when I am on the road.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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