Unable to boot downloaded Mandriva

Mumoy · 06-11-2005, 07:19 PM

Hi,

I'm completely new to Linux. I downloaded the three free installation iso's, burned them to cd's, but I am not able to boot from any of them. My laptop is configured to boot from cd. This is such a rudimentary problem and I feel embarassed posting it...any help is appreciated. Thanks!

hpladd · 06-11-2005, 07:57 PM

My cdburning skills are a bit sketchy, so I've had to reburn cd's at a slower speed in order to get them to operate properly. Perhaps this will help.

Also, did you check the md5sum of the download? Perhaps the download content is corrupted.

Mumoy · 06-11-2005, 08:13 PM

Where can I find this md5sum?

titopoquito · 06-12-2005, 07:09 AM

You should find them at the same place where you downloaded the iso files. If you look for example in ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/mirrors/Mandra...iso/10.2/i586/ -- there you see iso as well as the corresponding md5.asc files which contain the md5-sum.

So go to your download site and fetch the right ones for your version of Mandriva

btmiller · 06-12-2005, 10:24 AM

Also, did you remember to burn the downloads as images? If you browse the CD in Windows, do you see just the iso file? If so, you burned them wrong -- you can'y just burn the ISO file itself on the disk, you need to burrn it as an image.