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Hello, Just wanted to say thank you for the support provided. I did get mandrake 9.2 installed. I didn't have a cd burner so I used the hd.img to install. I found it was necessary to get the hd.img from the same place you download from. ISO buster was handy when downloading from the ISO. Downloading a separate hd.img file didn't work so well. I had trouble with the hd install until I realized the install kept crapping out at the same place. That place was where it started looking for files located on *disk2* (a separate iso file). I found the best way was to combine the 3 disks in a single directory. once I did that the install from HD went fine. Dapper Dan: I've read some of your posts here, I know it's probably been said many times before but you should thanked for your extra dedication in helping out us new to the penguin!

Good Advice Dan, Obviously getting cds working is a bit of an obstacle for me without a burner so once they do get burned it would be best if I don't have to do compile the new kernel as if I have to reinstall (based on my history with windows Xp I'm bound to reinstall a few times) it won't be so much work. But It doesn't appear as though one can substitute one kernel for another in the installation without screwing things up so 2.4 it is. I took your advice, checked the checksum of my latest download, all matched. Went out and bought new cds (sony this time). Probably won't have access to the burner for at least 2 weeks though. Looked in to ordering the 3 disks, but I live in Canada, and as such the shipping and duties can turn an $8 purchase (USD) into 20 (USD) (30 CDN) so I'll just wait. Probably play around with trying an installation from HD. I got that to work with a red Hat boot disk I downloaded but it obviously couldn't find the red hat files (I only downloaded mandrake isos).

Semi Related Question for the forum I have download Man 9.2 but not installed, I see that 9.2 doesn't contain the newest kernel 2.6. I'm trying to burn the 3 mandrake disks but I think it would be nice to be able to make the disks with the latest kernel. Can I somehow break apart the 9.2 ISO change the kernel to 2.6 and recreate the ISO then install? I know it's probably not that simple but I thought I would ask now in case it is easy. BTW I'm a newbie, never had linux installed. Heck I havn't even seen it except for a few screen shots.

Thanks for the tools and advice. I have very little use for cd burner (rather use large 2nd hard drive, probably wait until dvd burner get faster), actually laptop with the burner I used did have Nero on it but the default for isos was Easy Cd creator so I used that. I have downloaded again (how much can person download before isp calls? it's (4 downloads X 3 disks X 700MB) = too much! I think you are on the right track with the disks, memorex ones I just bought. It's certainly not the first time I've used the burner before, but was the first time I created a cd from an ISO.

Thanks Dan, 1. I did a Midsum check but after I downloaded several times I lost that info, last night I downloaded again and kept the checksum. Problem is since I don't have burner I really don't know how to them. Can I compare the checksum on the webpage to the file downloaded (as opposed to the one burned)?. What windows tool (this seems easier to do within linux, but that's not an option) would I use to read the checksum? 2. No errors. 4. I can see no errors at all when I boot the cd, I have set Bios several ways, ie (1st floppy, 2nd cd 3rd HD1) or (disabled floppy & HD leaving CD = disk boot failure or something like that, I can take out the linux boot disk and put in the Windows XP disk (as a test) and that works.) 5. Booting to the floppy does no better, unless its a dos boot disk, it just skips over them, havn't tried a boot sequence that only has the floppy in it yet. Unfortunately the cd writer on the borrowed laptop is gone now, so I think my options are limited to learning how to install off a hard drive (I have 2) but I need mandrake boot disk that I can get to work first. Can dos boot disk read the cd? mine can't that would be handy (created by XP - ver= win ME) Thought I should mention that I'm not burning the ISO to disk (ie resulting in big ISO file) I can read the created disk in Windows fine. But curious that the .htm & .txt files (ie install.htm) come out all scrambled in windows.

Hello, I am like Puk, newbie to linux having problems getting 9.2 mdk installed. Basically I'm just about ready to give up on this. Spent about a week trying! I've downloaded the 3 isos twice from different locations. I don't have a cd burner, but managed to borrow a laptop that did. Burned using Easy CD creater at 4X (default is 8X). I have 2 hard drives, both 30 Gig maxtor, Athalon 2500, 512MB. I use windows XP on the one hard drive. I've used Partition Magic on the second drive to make a swap partition and a regular one, ext2? format (PM did it). Anyhow I can't seem to get the os to boot to the cd without failing. I've changed the Bios features etc. At this point I usually just disconnect the Master with XP on it change the jumper and just use the other drive all alone. But still Can't get the cd to boot. Tried make a boot disk using rawrite, boot disk (cd.img, hd.img) neither worked. I'd like to try to install from the HD (on a seperate FAT partition) and that's where I am now. Curious though, I found a redhat 7.1 cd which did boot, but eventually failed about 10 minutes in (the only thing I selected was a graphical install ) didn't get too far. If anyone could give me some advice I'd be happy, also please mentionwhat os you are using (windows XP makes things difficult)