[Monkey2001]

Hello every one,

I am having difficulity installing mandrake 9.0 (3 cd set)

My PC is a P3 933, 512 sd ram, and i have a dodgy motherboard which has sound, lan, video, modem all on board. It is a pcchips M754LMR (i think all will work with mandrake excpt maybe the on board Pctel HSP56 micromodem?)

I am running windows 2000 on a 16 gig NTFS partition.
I also have a 3 gig NTFS partition and a 1.6 gig NTfS hard disk, which i plan to partition to have a 1 gig swap drive and a 600 mb storage drive. Will it be easy to do once i get mandrake installation running?

Anyway the real problem is that i cannot get to installation procces started. I cant boot from CD, i have tried to install from windows2000 (mandrake comes up with a screen and says install mandrake, so i click that and it says must restart, so i restart but it juts boots Windows).

So i thought to easy i will boot from disk, i made the CD image using rawwrite. THen i boot from disk and i get an error "Boot failed: chage disks and press any key to continue", so i made 2 different copies of the CD image, and tried them all, but no go.

Please help, i really want to get into Linux,

Thanking you very much

[lynch]

I think it could be the CDs.[list=1][*] Where did you get the CDs?[*]If it's a boxed set,exchange it for another.[*]If someone made the CDs for you,they could be burned wrong.[*]If you downloaded them yourself,did you also download the md5sums and check them against the iso images?[/list=1]
Mandrake 9.0 should support your hardware except maybe the modem.
HTH
lynch

[Monkey2001]

I got the 3 cd pack from the Newsagent. They came with a book called Operating in Linux. Your complete guide to the alternative OS.

So the CDs should be fine