i am a to linux as i have never "been" on the os yet. I use Winblowz 98 se, and am excited about the madrake 8.2 install disks which are sitting on my desk!
I have figured out that lnx4win doesn't come on most people's 8.2 disks, so i quickly forgot about using it in the same folder as windows.
Question 1 - Do i ned to partition my drive before i install linux? (also does linux have to be on my "C" drive? as my master is a 512 mg hunk of crap that my comp wouldn't let me take out even when they (master and slave) both were formatted)
Question 2 - Why does Linux tell me that "that CDROM does not seem to be a Mandrake Linux installation CDROM" it will say that with either disk one or two

Pentium 2 - 200 mhz
Master 512 mg
Slave 4 gig
64 mg d ram
4x Creative CDROM

if it makes any difference, i use have to use a boot disk, because my bios wont boot to CDROM

Hi.
Where did you get your cds?
Do you plan to keep win98 and dual-boot or are you going 100% Linux?
lynch

The CDs are copies of store bought disks.
I would like to keep my Win 98 at least until i get familliar with Linux

did you boot the installation using boot disks ?

Yes, i made boot disks thru rawrite (or whatever prog was on the madrake install disk)

the burn process of the cd's may have stuffed up...have you tried reburning the cd's ????

If you press F1 after booting with the install disk, and type lnx4win, you can install it that way. This will run slower, because you are running linux through a loop-back device. It is a way to try out linux without reformatting your hard drives. (This is all after you get the bad CD's resolved.)

yeah, except most of the 8.2 disks that i have heard about (including the downloaded ones) don't actually give you the lnx4win thing. I have searched all over the 3 disks. Going to get redhat, hope that will be a little easier.

I have the same problem. In the index.html file it says...

"If you are mirroring to a partition or an NFS volume, you'll need to get everything under "Mandrake/", as well as the disk images from "images/" that you need for your system."

...So i put everything into the mandrake folder. I left the autorun in the root and modified the path from dosutils/autorun.exe to mandrake/dosutils/autorun.exe and don the same for the .ico file.

After doing this i got the same message.
I downloaded the cd from a mirror from mandrake's web site.

My plan was to install Linux on the secondary disk, on a partition called Linux - would this be possible? I have Win2k on the master and the disk size is under 10gig - didt want to cram win2k and linux onn same disk!

Any feedback\help would be great