downloading mandrake?

[trc3]

Well i still havent gotten a GUI to work in freeBSD because i dont know what video card i have, and i cant get it to recognize my mouse. But anyways ive downloaded Mandrake8.2(the ISO disk Images) on my mac with osX, burned them to cd, i then put them in my other computer and rebooted. Nothing, is their a key you have to hold down to start from the cd like in mac OS(you know hold down the c key) or maybe did i burn them wrong is their a certian way you have to format the disk?i downloaded them through ftp cause it said something along the lines of them getting corrupted if i used netscape, also will i still have to figure out what video card i have when installing mandrake? Anyways thanks in advance to anyone that can help or that has any suggestions...

[ April 22, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]

[Calum]

you'll only need to know what video card you have if the mandrake installer *doesn't* autodetect it, which is possible, but i gather it's on the slightly slimmer side of likely.
Re: your CDs, no it should just boot up, not sure what the problem is though,

anybody else?

[trc3]

If i hold down f1 while freeBSD is starting up i get the promp

Code: [Select]

could i load the mandrake Cd from here?

Sorry if some of my questions are naive or stupid but im just learning linux/unix so you have to exceuse the stupidity...

[Master of Reality]

dont you set it in the BIOS to boot from CD.

[trc3]

umm, i dunno...but i put the cd in and it just boots normal...

[Master of Reality]

if you click delete (on some you have to hit "F2") when your computer starts up, when the memory count is going. You will go into your BIOS, and there should be somewhere in there where you can set boot sequence. Your boot sequence isusually set to hard drive,floppy,cdrom or something like that, you have to change it to so that cdrom is first.

[trc3]

Well i went into BIOS and changed it so the cd drive was first then floppy then the hard drive, but it still kinda boots normal but it give me all these weird error messages like:

getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/consol: operation not supported by device

then its says:

getty[223]: login_tty /dev/console: operation not supported by device

it repeates that a few times then says the first message agian, Would disabling the hard drive all together work?..

[voidmain]

If your machine will boot other CDs and not the Mandrake CD then you've messed up in creating the CD.  Did you download the *.ISO images in binary mode? If not, it's time to redownload them.  Also, did you select in your burning software that it was an *.ISO image? If you did it correctly you should be able to put the CD in any other machine that IS running and see many files and directories on the CD.

[askani]

well, they said pretty much everyithing. Try to use Adaptec East CD Creator 5+ to burn your MDK CDs or CD-R Win. Those I think are the two progs with the best ISO support. Pop the MDK CDs that you have in the CD-ROM and if it reads them you should be fine. If you don't wanna mess around in your BIOS, or if your machine still won't boot the CD you can make a boot floppy which will work just as well as a CD-ROM, albeit a little slower. Just go into the dosutils folder on the first CD and run rawritewin.exe (the one with the penguin icon) and select images\cdrom.img as the image to WRITE. Then put a floppy in, write the image and boot with the floppy and the first(install) CD in their drives.

[askani]

oh, and if you've still got windoze try to go into device manager and look at display adapters. You get the device manager by right clicking my computer and selecting properties then you go to the hardware tab and click on device manager (ME/XP/2k) or just click the device manager(9x) tab i think. let me know what windowze you have and if this was any help. there are other ways but this is the one that requires the least physical interaction with the innards of the computer.  

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by askani:
well, they said pretty much everyithing. Try to use Adaptec East CD Creator 5+ to burn your MDK CDs or CD-R Win. Those I think are the two progs with the best ISO support. Pop the MDK CDs that you have in the CD-ROM and if it reads them you should be fine. If you don't wanna mess around in your BIOS, or if your machine still won't boot the CD you can make a boot floppy which will work just as well as a CD-ROM, albeit a little slower. Just go into the dosutils folder on the first CD and run rawritewin.exe (the one with the penguin icon) and select images\cdrom.img as the image to WRITE. Then put a floppy in, write the image and boot with the floppy and the first(install) CD in their drives.

i suggest using nero burning ROM in windows (you'll have to find a crack for it though).
Aren't you running Mac OS X to burn you CD anyways?

[ April 22, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[trc3]

Im not sure if i downloaded them in bianary mode     but i did prepare the cd for a ISO image and when i put the cd in my mac their is a bunch off files and stuff on it. Also im burning them in osX i dont know if that makes a diffrence. Also im happy to say i dont have windoze any more...

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]

[psyjax]

Burn the ISO using Disk Copy in OSX. At least that's what I did when I d-loaded Madrake 8.0. Worked fine.

But then again this was the Mac version. As far as i know, Disk Copy has no problem recognizing or burning ISO's correctly.

[ab2ms]

Always check the md5sum before you burn. It can save a lot of headaches.