After years of using windows I am finally deciding to give linux a try on one of my computers. I decided to go with mandrake, but I am having trouble installing it. The problem is on the bios on that computer does not support booting to CD's from the bios. When it boots from the floppy (cdrom.img) i get a message saying No CDROM device found. (I am using a IDE dvd-rom right now) Then after I hit ok I get another message saying please insert additional drivers disk.
Does anyone know where to get the additional drivers disk at? Please keep in mind that I am trying to install 10.1 and there is NO images folder on the DVD disk for some reason. (On and I AM using a DVD-ROM )

Any help at all is appreciated.

What kind of computer is this?

That's why there's an error. It's a CD-ROM driver, not a DVD driver. Did you check with MandrakeLinux to see if that DVD-ROM is supported?

Additional drivers are usually located on the CD and you create the disk with rawrite or winrawrite or a batch file if it has one. Did you try to boot from a dos floppy and use autoinstall from the cd? (i hope I have my o/s & versions correct...)

This is a ALR server case. Oh one thing I meant to ask is, does mandrake support multiprocessing (I do have 2 CPUs in this server.

I assumed cd and dvd drivers were the same, but I guess not. I guess Ill have to download the CD version of mandrake now. Those additional drivers on the cd are not there. I did a search and they somehow did not make it on the DVD iso. I used winrawrite to make the bootable floppy disk, the on theat I booted to but the dvd-rom driver is not there.

Thanks for the reply!

Linux is well known for multi processing.

I would think you could make a boot floppy just like you would if the kernel was on a harddrive. Is there a boot directory on the CD?

The problem is there seem to not be the right cd rom drivers on the floppy boot disk. I am now using the 3 CD-ROM version of mandrake, and still havent had any success. Theres an additional drivers disk somewhere but I cannot find it. Ill do more searching for it tonight.

Thanks for the reply!

I got the same problem.... I'm using a Powermac 8600 and it says the same when i try to install....

'No CDROM device found'

i press ok, it says:

'Please insert the Additional Drivers floppy'

well.... i searched.... no drivers.img (or what ever called driver) on the cd-rom...

try'd other floppy's even Debian & YDL CDROM driver floppy's none of them works, it just says:

'Floppy is not a Linux ext2 floppy' (well it is !!!! 100% sure)

i don't get it.....

please help !!!!!

thanx in advance