Thursday at 20:20, Russell W. Behne wrote:
> I'm trying to install Mandrake on an older pentium box that currently
> has Windows 98 on it. The 3.1G hard drive is c:, and the CDROM is on D:.
> I had to make a boot disk using ``dd
> if=/mnt/cdrom/images/cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k'' because the
> machine couldn't boot from the cdrom. Now, during the install program
> start up the boot floppy works fine, but it stops suddenly, saying that
> it can't find a CDROM. How can I tell it where to find the CDROM?
Well, it's been several days now, and still no solution. When I boot
this box into its windblows 98, that can read the cdrrom just fine, but
when I boot from the Linux boot disk I still get the error ``no CDROM
found.'' Doesn't anyone know what to do?
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