Install: Mandrake 10.0

[Skythra]

Hey, for some reason when i try booting off the mandrake 10.0 cd to install it, when the boot comes up it says "Booting off cd: Failed"

Now... ive downloaded the ISO's from three different sources, and the md5sum is all checking out fine. I right click tell k3b to write the image to disk and it does without error...

Ive tried using nero, and finally, i have gone through 21 cd's to make sure that it isnt anything like the iso's the burning software or anything else... it simply wont boot. yes the PCbios is set to CDrom, A, C: boot order.

Now i just want to know if i can install it a different way. Im running mandrake 9.1, but its a little old, and i have a few problems with it that im hoping that perhaps have been addressed with mandrake 10.

With the Installation HTML file that gets put onto the ISO on the CD it explains this:

Under Linux (or other modern UNIX systems) type at prompt:
$ dd if=xxxxx.img of=/dev/fd0

That command doesnt seem to work giving the error

[root@localhost /]# $ dd if=xxxxx.img of=/dev/fd0
bash: $: command not found

Im not sure if im using it correctly...

Any help is appreciated thanks.

[heema]

just remove the $ sign and replace the xxxx with the name if the image

[Skythra]

okay so basically i just refer it to the image on the HDD?

or wait, i point it to the image, and it will start the install, and THEN i can use the CD's! that makes sense to me


(im slowly getting there, i just wasnt sure what things did, and im allways logged in as root, so i didnt want to do too much and lose everything before i was backed up!)

Thanks!

[Nerderello]

the $ was put into the command to show what it would look like if you entered the command as a "normal" user (ie. not root), as that is the standard command prompt.

In the command the "if" means In File (as in input file or source file) and the "of" means Output File (or destination file). And the "/dev/fd0" is the Linux name for your Floppy Disk drive.

So, all being well, you'll end up with a floppy disk with a bootable Linux file on it, that if you try to look at (by doing a ls or somesuch) will be totally unreadable (that's the way it should be).

have fun

Nerderello

[Brizzzer]

I installed Mandrake 10 on my computer. Yes I had a boot from CD problem too. But, all I did was make a bootable floppy for my cd rom drive. It was able to install it from there.

[Skythra]

i dont have a floppy drive

[Skythra]

[root@localhost Mandrake 10.0]# dd if=Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso of=/dev/fd0
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address

huh? whats the 'of' statement mean anyhow?

[Judland]

All I did was boot from CD #2 of the set and went from there. When it asked for CD #1, I just switched discs. Everything worked find for me after that.