Mine didn't install booting off the CD either, I had to make a book disk,
stick the CD in the drive, boot off the boot disk, press <enter> at boot
prompt, and then everything went well.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Erich Braentner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 5:14 PM
Subject: [newbie] cdrom problems
> I have been attempting to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Air - GPL Edition),
> with no success at all. I have a Creative Labs 52X CD-ROM drive in my
> system, and it doesn't seem to want to read it. I am booting off of the
> Linux CD to install. It goes through all of the detection processes fine,
> and detects the cd-rom drive as the right one also. It says "Initializing
> CD-ROM...", then it will say "Loading second stage ramdisk". It completes
> that successfully, but then will move on to "Initializing CD-ROM" once
> again, and put "in second stage install" on the bottom of the screen..
Then
> it will just sit there forever. Does anyone have any clue about how to
fix
> this problem? Sucks when you can't even get Linux to read your cd-rom
> drive, much less install.
>
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