CD Rom Installation Problem with Mandrake 3

[activethistle]

I'm totally new to Linux although I've been using DOS/Win for years.

I'm trying desparately to install Linux-Mandrake from a CD. I have created the CDROM boot disk which starts up fine, but it doesn't look at the CD drive. No light - no nothing. The message it gives is akin to "That CDROM device does not seem to contain a Mandrake CDROM".
IT DOES!! - I KNOW!! I PUT IT THERE!!

Can anyone shed any light on what my problem might be and howe to go about fixing it.

TVVMIA

Active.X-)

 

[Bugermass]

What version of mandrake are you using?? if its 7.0 or higher you should be able to boot from the CD.. Try that instead of using the floppy disk..

 

[mildmanrd]

Hi,

I'm a linux newbie as well and had a similar problem when installing Slackware 7.1. After a week of pulling my hair out, I decided to format and fdisk my hard drive. I created an active DOS partition of 800 megs, installed a DOS driver for my cdrom drive, and xcopied the entire contents of the installation cd to my hard drive. Next I used the bootdisk to arrive at the installation menu where I used Linux's version of fdisk to create a swap partition and root partition. This utility allowed me to assign my DOS partition a mountable drive(/dev/hda1). When I was asked what source I wanted to load Linux from, I chose /dev/hda1 where I saved the contents of the install cd. This was my method of madness and hopefully it will give you some ideas.

Good Luck!

 

[Guest_imported]

In Linux Mandrake 8.0 im having problems with getting teh
cd roms to work.

 

[Guest_imported]

In Linux Mandrake 8.0 im having problems with getting teh
cd roms to work.

If you have any suggestions please E-Mail me at

whitedemon00@aol.com
thanks. cya

 

[ktighe]

Try going into the BIOS (hit escape, or something during boot), and make sure that your cdrom is set as one of the boot devices.

 

[WoodLark]

I had a similar problem with FreeBSD. Even after setting the CDROM as primary boot device. I ended up using FDISK to make sure there were NO partitions on the hard drive. Then and only then would the system boot off the CD.

 

[MrTom]

what kind of cdroms are you using? ide or scsi?

and where are they? slave, master?

if you have another dvd/cd/cdrw then try using that.

 

[Comtech]

If you still have the .iso images on your HD, just install from there. Requires making a bootdisk using the boothd.img file through rawrite. Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[johnhoke]

If you are using SCSI cdroms or harddrives and trying to install MDK 8.0 you *will* have a HUGE amount of problems...

they are well known, and have more to do with the buggy kernel that was installed than anything else... go to mandrakeexpert.com for help

-j