hello all , sorry for the mistake i do because i'm french...

So i've downloaded linu mandrake 10.01 and burnt it on three cd's , i made a floppy because my cd install didn't work when i boot the pc (i have changed the device to boot in the bios , thats ok)

because my cd told me that
he could not open compressed ramdisk file

i have tried to use alternative image for the floppy , i burnt a cd with the ramdisk files uncompressed , but it doesn't work at all !

help me please ,and long life to linux (but when it's woks it's better!)

Did you burn the CD's properly. If you have a cd with the .iso file inside, then you didn't burn them as images. It's possible that the disks are bad also, and could'nt load in the boot kernel from the disk.

in fact , they are not imazge files , just a big rar archive which contain the cd...

You must burn the iso images. It's kind of obvious burning a .rar with the images won't work...

Use nero or something to burn ISO images from the images you downloaded.

http://ww2.nero.com/us/neroue-prog.php

go to:

recorder tab

then:

burn image

then:

you will see "burn files of type .iso .cue .bin" somewhere in that window.That's where you want to be.

I'm assuming your using windows to burn the mandrake cd's.
Good luck!!

yes , sorry for this trhead because i didn't burn rightly the iso file (i decompressed it.... )


thx