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Old 11-19-2004, 11:34 PM   #1
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Help installing Mandrake 10.1 plz?


Hey, I just downloaded the cd's the other day from linuxiso.org I tried burning image files to a cd-rom, floppy disks and nothing seems to work for me. So does anyone know where there's a tutorial to install it? Thanks.
 
Old 11-20-2004, 12:36 AM   #2
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How did you burn the images?

Most problems usually arise because, in order of occurance...

1) The user "copied" the ISO to the CD.

An ISO file is an "image" of the contents of a CD or DVD.

Newbies often burn the file itself to the CD or DVD resulting in a disk which contains a copy of the downloaded file, rather than recreating the original disk.

2) There was a problem in the download and the file is either incomplete or corrupt.

MD5 should ALWAYS be used to verify the download before burning it to CD or DVD.

3) The disks were correctly created but the system is either not configured to boot from the CD/DVD or it's bios does not support this.
 
Old 11-20-2004, 04:32 PM   #3
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Well, I know my computer is set to boot from floopy then cdrom, then hard drive. I was just curious which files have to burnt onto the cdrom. I tried the one .img file and I burnt it as an image. Can you tell me which img file has to be burnt to boot from cdrom, and do I only need to burn that one file?
 
Old 11-20-2004, 08:26 PM   #4
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If you have burned the CD correctly from the image file, you should be able to place the disk in ANY computer's CD/DVD reader and see a bunch of files on the disk.

If you only see one file, or no files, you burned it incorrectly.
 
Old 11-22-2004, 12:46 AM   #5
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How do I burn it correctly? thanks for paying attention to my questions too, I appreciate it.
 
Old 11-22-2004, 12:48 AM   #6
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use a burning program like nero, tell it to open the image file and then burn it.
 
  


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