Why don't you try booting the installation directly from the mandrake CD.
You will probbably have to enable CD ROM booting in your BIOS first.
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> hi all. this is my first question here so be gentle ;)
>
> i'm trying to install mandrake, but i am getting an error after booting
> off of a floppy disk.
>
> it said that the cd in the drive does not appear to be a mandrake cd.
>
> i have two CD drives.
> any suggestions on how to set up my HDDs and cd-roms for easy set-up?
> should the linux one be on the primary controller? hmmm..
>
> i have two HDDs
> * one for winblows [primary controller]
> * one for linux [secondary controller]
> * each one has a slaved cd drive (1 cd-dvd, 1 cd-rw).
>
> any help would be sweet.
>
> matthew!~
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