in ur cd burner software, select create cd from iso image or something
similar, that will extract all the files to the correct directory
sturcture, make it bootable etc etc etc
hope this helps
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
>
> --
> Dave Burrows
> 741 Cleveland Road
> Washington, PA 15301
> USA
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