On Saturday 27 January 2001 23:51, you 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
>
OK what you have there isn't a CD, it's a coaster. You are making an iso of
an iso. What you want to do is burn the _raw_image_ you downloaded because
it already _is_ an iso image.
Civileme
> 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
