installing Mandrake on dos server

[glchisum]

i have a netware server that i wish to totally convert to linux. must i have windows installed to do this? how else could i install from what is now a basic dos machine?

thanx for all of your previous help

gary

 

[smah]

If your machine can boot from the cd, set the cd rom as the first boot device, pop in the first Mandrake cd and reboot.

 

[glchisum]

i can't get the floppy install nor the cdrom to boot up even when i have selected the cd as bootable.???

 

[smah]

And you're sure the cd is good... try it on a windows machine as a test (exit the installation if it boots of course).

 

[j1bber]

I've had very similar problems with mandrake 9.1. The CD wont boot and the floppy wont boot. Another CD and a dos floppy will boot on my machine but not the Mandrake 9.1 cd
I have now tried the CD in another machine and it works fine in that one. There just seems to be a problem with particular CD drives. The second machine that did work is actually the one I wanted to put it onto I was just trying to use the partition resizing bit of the installer on the problem machine so its no real big issue to me.