Troubles w/ Linux install

[noidrock]

I am the Mandrake 9X ISO burned to cd and a bootable floopy from winrar with the CD image. I have a pentium 75 with 500meg HD and a CD-rom with floppy. The HD has been formatted and I looked thru the bios to see that the only options to boot are c and a drives. The Cd-rom does not come up. when I start the machine with the floppy and cd in, the install screen shows up, but does not access the CD>


eventually another screen comes up informing kill signals are being sent...
install exited abnormally recieved signals sending terminnation signals - done
sending kill signals - done
unmounting filesystems
/proc
you may safely reboot system

that is it!

ALT F3 yeilds this info....
automatic mode got 1 params
got 7 args
spawning a cell
cannot open shell - /tmp/sh doesnt exit
loading modules dependencies
automatic parameter for method menas returning CDROM drive
have to insmod ide-cd
need cdrom


Is there a solution? what can I do?

Thanks
Noid in Tampa

[variant]

what did you use to write the cd? dont use an iso image you gotta write the data raw to the cd nero can do that i think but not as default

[noidrock]

I used a cd data burner, tried both ways of burning as data and save as a ISO file. both times when booted, same result.

[Allblack]

It needs to be in data form. The problem is that your Bios is not supporting cd booting. I have a P133 somewhere and I had the same problem. I am not sure how it works with a Linux distro but when I installed freeBSD on that dinosaur I created two floppies to boot and it worked fine.
Have you had another OS on the PC before and did the drive show up?

Cheers