There are two CDs in the 7.1 distribution. The second one (x86 extension)
is optional. When you started the installation program should have, at some
point, asked you which CDs you have (the retail boxes have two more CDs).
If you don't have those CDs but check them off anyway, at the package
installation stage the program will ask for these CDs. Supposedly you can
just click on "cancel" if you don't have the CDs, and the installation
should continue. However, there are times that this won't work for some
reason. I ran into a similar problem before (I put in the CD but it refuse
to recognize it). After 4~5 tries of starting the installation over, it
finally worked.
Hope this helps. Will be glad to help further.
Andy
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> Hi ,
> I suppose I am considered a newbie since I have only learned computers
> this past year. I am however very brave or stupid cause I have tackled
> cmos,
> bios,fdisking etc. I am also quite good at putting computers together and
> fix
> many peoples for them. I can not however do a clean install of Linux for
> the
> life of me. I give up and come back to it thinking as I learn more I will
> have a
> better chance of a sucess. ARGH, is all I can say. I have tried to install
> mandrake
> 6,7 and 7.1 as well as Stormix. All programs were from maximum linux mags.
>
> I have since gotten a larger hard drive and it is SCSI ,which I thought
> would be
> better. I started the setup and after one and a half hours I got a message
> to
> put the extension 86 cd into my drive to continue or cancel if I did not
> have it
> this of course stopped my installation since I had no clue what it was let
> alone
> try to install it.
>
> At this point I am now completely frustrated I like Windows but I am sick
> of
> all the fatal exception errors and the many bugs windows has.
>
> I NEED SOME HELP, I am either completely out of my mind or I just don�t
> get.
> The more times I fail the more I want to install it.
>
> I have had sucessful installs if I do not need windows but unfornately I
> still need
> to use windows for all the proggrams not supported by Linux. If anyone has
> any
> suggestions I would be glad to here them.
>
> My system is a Pentium 200mmx
> Ati all in wonder 8 mg video card
> creative ensonique sound card
> A adaptec AHA pci SCSI controller
> 40x cd-rom
> Yamaha cd-recorder 4x (which I can not figure out)
> 9 gig Quantum (vikingII) HARD DRIVE (installed)
> 3 gig fujitsu hard drive(installed) IDE
> US Robotics 56k voice modem
>
> Barracuda hard drive(not sure if I will install
> it)
>
