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| Thread ID: 36996 | 2003-08-25 13:56:00 | Trouble installing Mandrake 8.2 | Mzee (158) | Press F1 |
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| 170495 | 2003-08-25 13:56:00 | I have Mandrake linux 7.1 & wish to upgrade to 8.2 & take advantage of a later kernel. Problem is, the CD Boots OK and then it says it can't find the CD drive, having just used it to boot with :-) The Kernel report sees the CD as a Hard drive for some reason. There is no problem with Mandrake 6.5 or 7.1 or Knoppix. The CD is a Cyber Drive /writer ( I tried a std CD drive with same results) The CD is Master on the 2nd IDE. The PCU Celleron 1.7ghz What is causing this? |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 170496 | 2003-08-26 02:56:00 | Magic. :D I had a different problem today ... adding a HD to a machine. I wanted to check the MS partitions in it, so I used the DOS boot on the Linux machine and used FDISK /STATUS. It complained that drive E: had a fatal error. Drive E: on that machine in DOS is a CD-RW. FDISK doesn't know about CDs of any flavour. :_| For a quick and dirty approach which might work ... make the boot floppy from that 8.2 CD and use that to boot. (RAWRITE should be in dosutils\, and the image in \images). Or from the working Linux, "dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/<something.img> of=/dev/fd0 bs=72k" does just as well. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 170497 | 2003-08-26 09:00:00 | I already tried with a boot floppy but the stupid thing finds the CD long enough to tell me that it can't find it :( I think they may end up as coasters! I have ordered "Yoper", the NZ production. Has anyone had a play with it. I do my work with Windows. Never got any work done with Linux, its a great way to pass the time. |
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