I must be brain dead

[bailey]

I have spent all day trying to install red hat on my old computer and have not even been able to get past the first part

I have retail ver, 5.2 and 6.1 and down load of ver 9.0 and mandrake ver 9.1

I have tried them all and always get stuck at the files setting in druad.

I cannot set up any of the mount point at all.

my hd is a 140 gig whestern digitak and have xp-pro on it now

used partition magic ver 7.0 to devide it in half, xp on the first half.
the second half, I have had it with 4 other partitions, and two and also as unalocated space, I have even tried it with them formated with fat 32,
nothing I try will let me install it.

burned the cd's with nero, latest ver.
the cd's are good as far as I can tell.

what could I be doing wrong

[mikeL]

I know this isn't much help but does disk druid recognize your hard drive ?

I would make sure that it is formatted in FAT32, don't know if PM 7.0 can do it, linux and NTFS don't play together well.

[bailey]

Originally posted by mikeL I know this isn't much help but does disk druid recognize your hard drive ? I would make sure that it is formatted in FAT32, don't know if PM 7.0 can do it, linux and NTFS don't play together well.

thanks mikel
ok, so I have the drive in druid, xp partition is shown a 80 gig

the unalcated space is 80 gig,
how big of a partitipn should I male for mandrake

should it be a primary or a logical, or extended one

[bailey]

well now I tride the mandrake set and it will not see the cd in the drive, this is nuts

the mandrake one are supposed to be bootable disk one and disk two, both are suppose to be bootable but does not work

burned them with nero, what the heck gives

[mikeL]

I would say you have a bad download, after you download the files you can check the md5 numbers for errors, although I've never downloaded linux (still on dial-up).

As for the size of the partition you can use the whole 80 GB if you want, once you get the CD to boot it will be pretty straight forward.

[bailey]

thanks, I'll try that

[Doobie]

Did you burn it as an ISO?

[bailey]

ok
I did the sum check and all 3 downloads check ok

I did a burn of the iso and also did isobuster then burned each one with nero.

I also tried winimage which did the same thing as isobuster and burned them too.

I can read the cd's and see all the files on them, also I made the differant boot floppy's and tried them.

still nothing seams to want to work, when it asked where the files are , I say the cd, it goes to the cd drive to get them and it says there is no cd in the drive,

there is cause that is how I made the boot floppy

something weared is going on

I wounder if it is something I am doing wrong in nero, like when you start new, it has new in the first block, should it be changed to the lable of the iso file, like mandrake install disk1

[Floppyman]

Hi,

I just burned 3 MD 9.1's ISO's onto cd yesterday and everything worked fine. Just use the wizard in Nero and choose the "Create cd from Image file" option. HTH

[bailey]

ok I'll try that
thanks

[bailey]

Originally posted by Floppyman Hi, I just burned 3 MD 9.1's ISO's onto cd yesterday and everything worked fine. Just use the wizard in Nero and choose the "Create cd from Image file" option. HTH

thanks floppy
thats what I was doing wrong
working like a charm, loading now

[bailey]

ok
I am on this system now
useing kde, the window is small, how do you make it full screen

I can streach it up and down, but needs to be opened more width not the monitor screen but the window I am useing for the browser

never mind I found it

[bailey]

well that did not last long, got rid of mandrake oad installed red hat 9
its a lot better to me anyway

[Doobie]

Originally posted by bailey well that did not last long, got rid of mandrake oad installed red hat 9 its a lot better to me anyway

why is that?

[bailey]

the hplaserjet 4L printer does not work at all with this set-up and I need the printer to work, for school lessons print outs.

mandrake sucks as far as useability for me, red hat has a much better user friendly display screen, to me anyway

[bailey]

all working, I am now dual booting with xp-pro and red hat 9.1. printer and sound working great too.