OK, at work on the 20 MB connection I reeled in the 3 Mandrake 10 CD's. Burned them all, made SURE I checked the option to make CD#1 bootable (Roxio EasyCD 5), but altho BOIS says look to the CDROM on boot, it don't boot.....

I'm looking to over-write/fresh install on a working RH 9 box, the one i'm actually working on right now....

jeez.....I can't even find rawrite on disk 1 or 2; haven't looked at 3....

CDRom is Plextor R/W; 40/12/40A; I *seem* to recall I saw it was doing SCSI emulation on boot, if I am reading the boot process right and if that makes a difference....PII 266/400 MB ram...nothing too fancy.... (as it scrolls by at boot...)..it is secondary master.

I see bootcat.bin and bootimg.bin on that CD#1 (from within X, so I KNOW the CD's at least reading...); is there some concept that's eluding me?

Looking for where i've brainlocked here......its making me NUTS!

regards,
vinylone

How did you download them? Did you grab the isos or the directories? Roxio 5 burns isos really well - go here to verify that you burned the images (if that's what you downloaded) correctly.

You made the problem yourself. DO NOT burn the discs as bootable.
They are bootable by default.
Just burn the ISOS normally.

All you need to do is burn them to CD, insert disk 2 and boot your system. Follow the directions presented and insert CD 1 when told to do so..... Mandrake kinda goofed when they setup the boot image.

D'oh!

I think I get the picture....

I got the images from one of the mandrakelinux.org mirrors, from the download page....I sorta just clicked on each directory, and saved as iso's...but I DID burn #1 as 'bootable', i'm gathering this was a mistake....

I'll re-grab cd#1, thanks for the direction.....

FYI, this is an install to replace the dying, polluted, crippled, on-the-way-out Win95 box for a lady i know, a non-technical sort who just needs a computer (student, gracious, karmic..). Hey --i'm a sport, the box was gathering dust in the closet. It has RH 9 on it; but the Network Device Control in Gnome is just too...fragile. As root, it seems stable. As a user, it just bombs.....i'm sure there's a fix, but..RH? I'm done. I'm looking for another way...i'll give Mandrake the $$ if it works...

Me, i've gotten lazy; I bought a Powerbook G4, and do just about everythig with it (state govt, wan tech, LOTS of Cisco...and hence zterm/ssh/etc....)

I've heard great things about Mandrake, on a user-level plane. All i'm really after is a stable dialer at this point; the RH9, I never installed Kde, this Mandrake install, I will....i've been told kppp is pretty robust.....

regards, thanks, and i'll drop a quick epilogue on how it shakes out...

vinylone

There's a bug with CD1 of Mandrake 10 Community Edition: it won't boot on some PCs. Mine did not boot, and I bought it; I did not burn it.
The solution is to boot CD2, then when it asks for an install CD, you switch to CD1.

Yves.

Yea, I gathered there was a problem there. If you don't mind me asking, what is "Community" version? Haven't seen that term anywhere in the English sites. Perhaps a French-specific distro?

I did try the 2nd CD, which I had burned 'normally', as in I didn't set it to boot via the Roxio burner...it in fact didn't boot. At work, where the fat pipe is, i'll reel disk1 in again and try again tonight....