I am having problems installing mandrake 10.1 (3 cd)

[odysseas 0]

Hi

I am really new into linux. i am trying to intall mandrake 10.1 the three cds by sticking my first cd and rebooting the system. although the system checks the cd first i always end up in windows. the cd just contains a single rar file of around 680 mb. any ideas?

the system is

laptop advent 7026

p4 2.66 ghz

1gb of ram

40 gb of hdd

windows xp home edition

 

thanks

odysseas

[pr9phet 0]

You can't install as a .rar

 

The image burned to CD needs to be an .iso

 

Unpack the .rar file (winzip will do so), then burn the .iso to CD.

 

It may be required that you make a boot disk if the CD won't boot into the linux install (seems to be common)

[odysseas 0]

thanks

odysseas

[danleff 0]

Also, just to clarity, don't burn the iso itself to the cd as a data file. You need to choose the "burn image" feature of the burning software. See my draft on burning iso's at this link.