Thanks for the pointer. Using Ctrl-Alt-F3 ... F5 I discovered that Mandrake
7.2 was having problems mounting the CD-RW. (If anyone is interested in
the messages I can provide them.)
I Already have WinME installed so I bypassed this problem by copying the
mandrake CDs to
the Hard drive and used a floppy with the harddrive install image to install
Mandrake.
I am now happily configuring my system...
Thanks for your help.
David Johnson
----- Original Message -----
From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem
> On Tuesday 23 January 2001 00:52, you wrote:
> > I have a 1 Ghz Athlon, Asus A7v motherboard, Plexwriter 8/4/32A CD-RW,
128
> > MB ram.
> >
> >
> > I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums.
> > I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the
> > CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD & Disc-at-once options
(I
> > also tried Track-at Once).
> > The CD-RWs burned successfully.
> >
> > I rooted from the install CD-RW and after it got to the initializing
CDROM
> > point, I got a message
> > saying that the CDROM device did not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake
> > CDROM.
> >
> > Any Ideas about what is causing this message?
> >
> >
> Well, you most likely made it properly--use ctrl-alt-f3,4,5 to get the
> information from the other screens. If you are plugged into the on-board
> promise controller, you may have to give some special instructions to the
> kernel.
>
> Civileme
>
>
> >
> >
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