How to install mandrake 10 without floppy?


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Hey guys, i bought a magazine today that has mandrake linux and Gentoo 2004 on it. I installed the iso's to cd's using nero. The uatoplay of mandrake works fine, it says somthing along the lines of 'click ok to restart your system and install mandrake, click cancel if you havent backed up' so i clicked ok, but my computer is just booting to Xp. In the bios first boot is set to CD (my floppy drive broke a long time ago) and the 'dosutils' on the cd's dont work, because of my floppy drive. Anyhelp?

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mmm weird, if you has set first boot on the cd player (and you say so), MDK10 install should automatically boot, and then you get a "press F1 or ENTER" message..

I installed it a few days ago without any probs, didn't need of a floppy

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Its not Linux Format perchance is it?

Every install from ISO / Install from DVD disk has never worked

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Nope, its 'personal computer world'. Gentoo comes on fine, but i heard mandrake is easier to install. Ill keep trying.

And the reason i mentioned floppy wasbecause of the dostulis, making a boot floppy in case it didnt auto-boot.

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Do you have the utility to make a boot cd? On Linux Format you can burn a small ISO to a CD that acts like a boot floppy, if you want it I'll hunt it out later and PM you a link.

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Question:

Can you boot *any* bootable CD? (like your Windows CD?)

This will help determine if it is your computer, or the Mandrake CD....

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Question:

Can you boot *any* bootable CD? (like your Windows CD?)

This will help determine if it is your computer, or the Mandrake CD....

Yes, the gentoo 2004.

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Yes, the gentoo 2004.

Is it the multi-CD set of Mandrake?

If so, then there is a 'weirdness' that requires a boot off of CD2, then it will boot and complain that it isn't the right Mandrake CD. Switch to 1, and it installs.

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PM'd you a link to that app, hopefully itll work.

@markjenson I remember reading something about this, thankfully I never had to worry about it, once I used my lil app from my linux magazine I booted straight from their covermounted DVD and everything went smooth.

I have to admit, I have MDK 10 installed on my PC atm, and have never even tried it.

Hope everything works out man, let us know how it goes.

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Is it the multi-CD set of Mandrake?

If so, then there is a 'weirdness' that requires a boot off of CD2, then it will boot and complain that it isn't the right Mandrake CD. Switch to 1, and it installs.

Man, your right. Very weird. But thanks :D

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