Hmmm.. I bet you're right. That's not all I have to learn. <g> I use
Nero for burning (which, it seems, has no association with ISO files) and
Direct CD for pocket writing. I have an old copy of Easy CD Creator
(Adaptec) and will download the upgrade so I can follow the instructions I
found this morning on the L-M site in a document called "How to burn a
Mandrake CD from an iso9660 file under Windows? [By Laurent Daniel
Sinitambirivoutin]"
<http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/iso/howtoisoen.html#ECD>
Dave
KompuKit wrote:
>
> This is the reason...you only see one file with an ISO
> extension...
> it is because you NEVER actually burned it correctly...
> instead ...you only copied the iso file to the CD...
>
> learn how to burn,,, is my suggestion
>
> (contains no tree
> > nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly the correct size
> > as compared to what I downloaded.)
>
> Dave Burrows wrote:
> >
> > Hi, John and all;
> >
> > Early this morning (about 4:11 am), I finished downloading the ISO files
> > that I began last Sunday evening. It took only 5.5 days to download both
> > ISO
> > files with my super duper speedy delivery dial-up connection. ;)
> >
> > I tried to install this version of Linux-Mandrake, having been burned to CD
> > but am told by the installer that it doesn't appear to be a Linux-Mandrake
> > disk. After several attempts including 1 with the purchased CD (which
> > contains only a beta of KDE2.0 but which initializes correctly) I booted
> > back to Windows and looked at the purchased disk (showed a number of
> > directories as expected) and at the one I had just burned (contains no tree
> > nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly the correct size
> > as compared to what I downloaded.)
> >
> > I decided that I better test the install boot (floppy) disk I made,
> > thinking that it might be pointing to something it can't find on the CD.
> > (by the way, the CD device I used to try to install either disk is the
> > writer not the
> > CD-ROM; everything works fine with the purchased disk but not the one I
> > burned) In my BIOS, i changed the boot order to boot from the the cd
> > device,
> > then C:\ then A:\. On reboot, I read that CD failed and it booted to C:\.
> > I tried both CD devices with the same failure resulting.
> >
> > What must I do to make this file function? A rhetorical question: 4.5
> > years ago when I was totally new to Windows (had only ever used a DOS
> > machine before that), I never had this much trouble with that OS nor since;
> > why do I want this one so much? Rhetoric off, rant on: why IS this such a
> > bugger to install and configure for someone who is not a programmer and
> > 'only' a user? Wouldn't Linux be more likely to do some serious damage to
> > the MS market if it were a little more user friendly? Rant off. <g>
> >
> > Tenacity reigns; I still want Linux. Any suggestions anyone?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > John W wrote:
> > >
> > > You can download the ISO image and burn that to a cd/cd's. I have also
> > > looked at the mandrake mirrors and in the past have downloaded everything
> > > except the lin4win and dostools to my harddrive in a folder named Mandrake
> > > and have then created a boot image to boot up and direct the installer the
> > > Mandrake DIR and installed from a Fat partition.
> > > --
> > > John W
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Dave Burrows
741 Cleveland Road
Washington, PA 15301
USA
