Do you have the BIOS on this box configured so that it
reads the cd, then the floppy then the Hard Drive? It
sounds like thats what you need to do, so that when
you do a reboot it see the CD first and then will load
the Mandrake installation program.
--- "William V. Clemens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install 8.0. I downloaded
> the two iso images, burned them,
> and when I put the inst CD in the drive, it
> just sits there (under w98/2000).
>
> I downloaded the iso images through IE, and burned
> them on a W98 platform
> usin Easy-CD Creator (the Adaptec one). It looked
> like the right setup.
>
> Is the idea that it will boot from the CD
> when the machine is restarted? If
> so, what about creating a floppy to boot
> with, that then will start the
> install from the cd?
>
> My box is a formerly naked PC, with ASUS P5A board,
> 392MB RAM, CyberDrive
> CD, Adaptec AVA-1505 SCSI card for the CD. When this
> SCSI/CD combo was on
> a former machine, I was able to use it to install
> RH6.1, but it needed a
> boot disk. After installing RH, it was never able to
> access the CD again,
> and I got busy with other stuff. The current box
> runs W2000, but less so
> in the future, hopefully.
>
> If I want to make a floppy to start the
> installation, where do I do that?
> Can I use one from the Mandrake 7.1 installation?
>
>
>
> I need a few suggestions. Thanks in advance.
>
> William
>
>
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