Hi, John and all;
Early this morning (about 4:11 am), I finished downloading the ISO files
that I began last Sunday evening. It took only 5.5 days to download both
ISO
files with my super duper speedy delivery dial-up connection. ;)
I tried to install this version of Linux-Mandrake, having been burned to CD
but am told by the installer that it doesn't appear to be a Linux-Mandrake
disk. After several attempts including 1 with the purchased CD (which
contains only a beta of KDE2.0 but which initializes correctly) I booted
back to Windows and looked at the purchased disk (showed a number of
directories as expected) and at the one I had just burned (contains no tree
nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly the correct size
as compared to what I downloaded.)
I decided that I better test the install boot (floppy) disk I made,
thinking that it might be pointing to something it can't find on the CD.
(by the way, the CD device I used to try to install either disk is the
writer not the
CD-ROM; everything works fine with the purchased disk but not the one I
burned) In my BIOS, i changed the boot order to boot from the the cd
device,
then C:\ then A:\. On reboot, I read that CD failed and it booted to C:\.
I tried both CD devices with the same failure resulting.
What must I do to make this file function? A rhetorical question: 4.5
years ago when I was totally new to Windows (had only ever used a DOS
machine before that), I never had this much trouble with that OS nor since;
why do I want this one so much? Rhetoric off, rant on: why IS this such a
bugger to install and configure for someone who is not a programmer and
'only' a user? Wouldn't Linux be more likely to do some serious damage to
the MS market if it were a little more user friendly? Rant off. <g>
Tenacity reigns; I still want Linux. Any suggestions anyone?
Dave
John W wrote:
>
> You can download the ISO image and burn that to a cd/cd's. I have also
> looked at the mandrake mirrors and in the past have downloaded everything
> except the lin4win and dostools to my harddrive in a folder named Mandrake
> and have then created a boot image to boot up and direct the installer the
> Mandrake DIR and installed from a Fat partition.
> --
> John W
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Dave Burrows
741 Cleveland Road
Washington, PA 15301
USA
