You should be able to modify your bios so that you can boot off a cd-rom.
Failing that, there are a bunch of utilities in the /dosutils/ directory. I
believe there is a rawrite program that will create a boot disk from the
image, also in that directory.
On Thu, 03 May 2001 10:14:26 -0700, William V. Clemens wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install 8.0. I downloaded
> the two iso images, burned them,
> and when I put the inst CD in the drive, it
> just sits there (under w98/2000).
>
> I downloaded the iso images through IE, and burned them on a W98 platform
> usin Easy-CD Creator (the Adaptec one). It looked like the right setup.
>
> Is the idea that it will boot from the CD
> when the machine is restarted? If
> so, what about creating a floppy to boot
> with, that then will start the
> install from the cd?
>
> My box is a formerly naked PC, with ASUS P5A board, 392MB RAM, CyberDrive
> CD, Adaptec AVA-1505 SCSI card for the CD. When this SCSI/CD combo was on
> a former machine, I was able to use it to install RH6.1, but it needed a
> boot disk. After installing RH, it was never able to access the CD again,
> and I got busy with other stuff. The current box runs W2000, but less so
> in the future, hopefully.
>
> If I want to make a floppy to start the installation, where do I do that?
> Can I use one from the Mandrake 7.1 installation?
>
>
>
> I need a few suggestions. Thanks in advance.
>
> William
>
>
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