OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the results!
Thank you sooooo much to everyone for trying to help me out. I am really anxious to learn Linux, but this has been very discouraging for me. Wish me luck! Diane P.S. I checked the jumpers on these drives a few days ago - they are set properly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Shilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 > Dianne, > You may want to try disconnecting the cd-rw drive and leaving only > the cd-rom as secondary master, there may be a conflict between the two > drives. If that works, check the device jumper settings on the two drives > and make sure that they are not both trying to claim the "master" setting, > Jonathan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:15 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake > > 9.0 > > > > > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think > > the actual Cd is > > > > the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot > > Record??? Just a > > > > stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much > > appreciated at > > > > this point. > > > > > > > > Diane > > > > > > No Diane. You only get to the hard drive MBR after bypassing the CD > > > bootup step. But if you can't boot from *any* bootable CD, no matter > > > whether it is Windows or Linux, then something is wrong with the > > > hardware (assuming that the BIOS is correctly set up). > > > > > > Given that it is a new computer, I would take it back to > > the store and > > > ask for another one. Carry the Windows and Mandrake boot CDs to show > > > them the problem. > > > > > > Good luck! > > of course we could teach you how to do it from booting with a > > boot disk you > > can create from the CDroms,,, if we want, and if you can boot > > up from a cdrom > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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