John....asking you to insert the cd when the cd is already in
the drive (even if the cd is what you booted the system on) is
normal behavior for all Mandrake (and RedHat) cd installations
I've ever done. Just go on ahead with the installation.
Alan
> John Hanna wrote:
>
> Hello,
> my name is John, I'm from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
> I've been using Mandrake Linux starting with version 6, then
> 6.1 and a couple of days ago I checked the web site and found
> out that 7.0 was released. So I downloaded the ISO (yes on a
> cable modem :) ) and made a CD. but when I try to install it I
> get to the step where it said that it's initializing cd rom
> and it just sits there...
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> P.S. I don't know if that makes any different but I'm booting
> with a windows start up disk and using
> /dosutils/autoboot/autoboot.bat to start the install and when
> it asks to put the CD in, I already have it in.
>
> Thank you
> John
