mauritzv

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After loading the Welcome screen of the installation I receive an error that states that I do not have a linux installation cd in my cdrom drive, but I do! And there is nothing wrong with my cd-rom drive.

The cd I downloaded as a ISO cd image and burned it on cd.
I did this using WinISO extractiong the ISO file then burning the extracted data on cd.

Also in the help files there is a directory list and according to this list there must be a directory "lnx4win" on the cd, well it is not on mine, should it be?

Also where do I get lnx4win then?

piranha

You should burn the iso without extracting it first.

mauritzv

Thanks for replying so quickly!
I will do that, but why will this make a difference?
Also will I be able to multi-boot if I already multi-boot between win98 and win2k?

taz.devil

Yea, you will have no problems. lnx4win loads differently than win98 or 2k. You'll be using a program called loadlin to boot the linux kernel from windows, or more accurately MSDOS mode.

mauritzv

I burned the ISO directly to cd but still there is no lnx4win dir.

This is the dir's I do have in root folder:

Boot
doc
dosutils
images
Mandrake
misc
tutorial

There is also no lnx4win in any of the sub dir's

JimKyle

You need all three CDs for a full install of Mandrake 8.1; the third CD contains the commercial packages. Since lnx4win IS such a package, I suspect that it's on CD3. In my case I had to have CD2 in order to complete my installation, but never needed to mount CD3...

maxg

I think the writers of the install text aren't communicating with the crew responsible for making the ISOs!

Lnx4win is NOT on any of the 3 CDs.

Check this link http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lnx4win.php3

mauritzv

Thankz! I got Linux for Windows installed and had no problem with the setup.

Thymox

The reason that you need to burn the CD 'as image' rather than extract the files is that Windows and Linux have different filesystems. You know there's a difference between FAT32 and NTFS, well Linux uses ext2 (amongst others). Now, when you're talking about CDs, they all use the ISO9660 system (except the ones that don't ). However, this only supports files in the old 8:3 dos format (i.e. READ-ME1.NOW) and to use files of greater length, you need to add a 'compability layer' or sorts. I don't know if you've ever noticed the 'Use Joilet extentions' option on most cd burning software, well Joilet is the Windows layer that allows you to have long filenames on CDs. Linux uses something called 'Rock Ridge' (I am right, aren't I?). This allows you to have long filenames, ownership of files, symbolic links and lots of other nice things that only seem to come with Linux. If you extract the files and then burn using Joilet, you lose all of this.

Just thought I'd add my little bit to this thread.

piranha

Lin4Win is now part of the mandrake cooker project. You should have a look there. They claim you can download it there.