Grace,
Try my way : make a bootdisk from your Win98 - must have drivers to use
your cdrom drive. Use this disk to boot to DOS, that is when boot process
is completed you see A:> on the monitor -> insert linux cd into the cdrom
drive -> type cd C: {if you cdrom has been detected as C: else change
accordingly} ->cd dosutils -> cd autoboot -> cd mdkinst ->{type} cdrom.bat
-> press [Enter] on keyboard; installation should start. Follow the
installation menu. At one stage you are 'asked' for the 'Extension CD'; if
you do not have it press [Esc] on the keyboard, press [Esc] again to exit.
This is long winded, but that was what worked for me. HTH
At 04:51 PM 14-11-2000 +0000, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Grace Becongco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 6:38 AM
>Subject: [newbie] Please Help a Newbie! Problem Installing Linux-Mandrake
>7.1 - Cannot initialize CDROM
>
> Upon running the autorun on the DosUtils directory (from Win
>98 of course),
