On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:33, you wrote:
> Ok, I have received several replies and greatly appreciate the help and
> suggestions. Now I don't know whether to feel silly or glad. While
> re-doing all of the step that I have taken so that I could write down
> the messages, I was able to start the install via boot floppy and
> successfully installed mandrake. I can't figure out what has changed
> since, or maybe what I did wrong last time :) However, I still got the
> same error when trying to boot from the cdrom. While I would like to
> figure out the cause of the cdrom error, I have erased the evidence.
> Several people have asked about the CD player, it did work in windows
> and I was able to see the contents of it. In fact, I created the boot
> floppy with tools provided on the cd. Declan has inquired about the
> physical connection of the cd-rom which I will check after work today.
> Otherwise, here is the information requested and the steps taken when
> trying to boot from the cdrom.
OK, if you got in, there's no big physical problem.
> 1. After failing to boot directly from Mandrake cd, Caldera cd, or RH
> cd, adjusted BIOS to boot starting with CD, then A:, then C:
You couldn't boot from cdrom because you never set up for it! The closest
you got was CD, (check C: first then D: or drive1 1st partition, Drive2 1st
partition) It would have found a boot record on C: and run windoze :-(. If
you had deleted or moved C:\command.com or io.sys, or msdos.sys, you would
have got in :-/. Read the sigfile below.
Yoyu couldn't run autoboot bat because your cdrom wasn't accessible under
Dos. You (at a wild guess) were accessing this from a DOS prompt in windoze??
AFAIK, that isn't good enough. There is a question mark as to why it wouldn't
start from a boot floppy was probably a dud floppy - install floppies are
doubly fussy for some reason.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Experience is like a comb that Life gives you -
AFTER all your hair has fallen out.
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