mandrake 10 cd is not booting!!!!!!

pradeepmenon777 · 09-18-2004, 09:49 AM

my mandrake 10 .iso which was downloaded twice cannot boot from the cd at installation time. the bootable floppy which i made was also a flop when it said that the diskette is invalid. what do i do now. me, with a 64kbps connection took almost 10 whole days to download the 3 cds. please find out a way to prevent me from going mad. lol. thanx in advance. i just want to upgrade from 9.1 to 10.

do help me out now!! or else i am going to cut my internet connection and go into deep mandrake depression!!!!!! lol lol

Proud · 09-18-2004, 10:01 AM

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100e...p3#bootinstall

Also, did you checksum the .isos and then the burned cds?

spaniard · 09-18-2004, 10:18 AM

Apparently this happens on some pc's with Mandrake 10.0, try to boot using CD2 then swap it for CD1 when prompted.

masand · 09-18-2004, 10:22 AM

hi there

apart from the above advice
also try this

see if u can boot from other bootable Cds(to verify that ur 1st boot device is CD)

also have u burned the mandrake iso as a datacd or an ISO file/cd

regards

allforcarrie · 09-19-2004, 07:33 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=232447
I'm having a simalar problem.

pradeepmenon777 · 11-01-2004, 12:24 PM

all these advices where taken into consideration but it were of no use for me, as i found myself with no mandrake 10 installer. it shows an error on booting with other cd , that the installer is corrupt and cannot continue further.

what can be done?? should i try out 10.1 instead and get satisfied with the problems along with that ................

anyway, i changed to a suse guy and am downloading its update patches.

similar sufferers please retaliate and find a solution to our prob....

bye and out

E.T.Me · 11-02-2004, 02:22 AM

Problem: Install cd's wont boot.....

Fix: You need to "Burn Image" to the cd..

What you did was cory the .iso to the cd or opened it and copied the files to the cd. You need to Check your help files with your software and use the "burn image" under "File"--Burn Image" not "Write CD"

pradeepmenon777 · 11-15-2004, 02:30 AM

no no, i burnt the .iso image and i was not such a big fool to do what you said. i did not succeed even after that, try to get a sensible solution for it.

opjose · 11-15-2004, 03:55 AM

You got a bad download.

If there was a real problem with the installation CD's there would be nothing but posts to this effect here.

Try searching for a local repository from where you can hopefully download the ISO at a faster speed using something OTHER than dialup.

If this is not an option consider purchasing the disks, at worst case from one of the places that sells them to you for 5.99 USD for the set.

pradeepmenon777 · 12-15-2004, 06:24 AM

thank you for your advice. i am going to do it. thanks...........