use rawwrite from within dos and of course use the non
windows version with the cd-image... it works just
keep trying.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't have the answer but the same thing happend
> to me
> V delephimne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antoniou, Stylianos
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:10 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 installation
>
>
> Hi there,
> I downloaded Mandrake 7.0 iso image file, burnt the
> installation CD but when
> I tried the installation, after the first successful
> step of recognizing my
> hardware, it could not intialize the CD-ROM. After
> the 'Intializing
> CD-ROM...' message it gave me:
> 'mount failed. Invalid argument;
> and then
> 'Error mounting ramdisk. This shouldn't happen. I am
> rebooting your system
> now'
>
> I then tired to make a boot floppy with
> rawwritewin.exe. However, when I
> tried to open it (following the orders of
> install.htm) I got the message:
> F:\dosutils\rawwritewin.exe is not a valid Win32
> application' This made me
> suspicious whether the CD was created correctly.
> Does anybody know if it is
> a problem with the new version of Mandrake or with
> the program that I used
> to burn the CD (Easy-CD creator 4.0, which very
> rarely gave problems,
> anyway).
> Thank you in advance
> S. Antoniou
>
>
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