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Okay, I know a new to installing a new OS, and I’m trying to install Mandrake along with Windows XP. Now the only problem I had was with burning the disks. Does any one know how to burn ISO images with Easy CD Creator? Or maybe if there is another burning program that is free that it is easy to do it with, but the point is, I cant figure out how to burn it as an image, and not just a file, because it wont boot off the CD if it is not an image.
yeah use nero. http://www.ahead.de/us/index.html they have a full featured demo. 🙂
Unfortunatly it doesnt matter if they have a full featured demo, because I’ve already used it and run out of time to pay… Thanks for trying to help anyway
1. Launch Easy CD Creator
2. Choose File, Create CD from CD Image… and you’ll be presented with a dialog box.
3. Click on the “Files of type:” dropdown box and select “ISO Image Files (*.ISO)”
4. Select the .ISO file you downloaded then press Open.
5. At the CD Creation Setup dialog box, make sure the Write Method is set to Disc-At-Once and Close CD.
6. Select the desired write speed and create options, if necessary, then press OK to begin recording.Good Luck!
Quote:quote:Originally posted by shifter1. Launch Easy CD Creator
2. Choose File, Create CD from CD Image… and you’ll be presented with a dialog box.
3. Click on the “Files of type:” dropdown box and select “ISO Image Files (*.ISO)”
4. Select the .ISO file you downloaded then press Open.
5. At the CD Creation Setup dialog box, make sure the Write Method is set to Disc-At-Once and Close CD.
6. Select the desired write speed and create options, if necessary, then press OK to begin recording.Good Luck!
Thanks! I cant wait to install it
If you are using a multiboot system, you should consider installing a bootloader that has more options than the NTLDR or Lilo/Grub. I’m partial to XOSL, it can do much more than just boot into the OS.
Also, how do you get windows to check to see if there is a CD and than to boot off of it if there is? I thought it was in msconfig.ini but I didnt find it.
Booting from CD is a setting in your system bios. Check your manual for exact instructions, but generally you just need to hit the “delete” key at bootup to access its options.
That isn’t a function of Windows, but a function of your Computer’s BIOS. When your computer is booting, you can press a key to enter the BIOS configuration utility, Usually this key is DEL, F1 or F7. Look in your motherboard of computer manual to enable CD ROM booting.
Heh, beat by Shifty
Quote:quote:Originally posted by DavidThat isn’t a function of Windows, but a function of your Computer’s BIOS. When your computer is booting, you can press a key to enter the BIOS configuration utility, Usually this key is DEL, F1 or F7. Look in your motherboard of computer manual to enable CD ROM booting.
Heh, beat by Shifty
Yeah, I forgot, you press del to enter the bios setup on my computer, but apparently CD was already the first option for boot if it existed, so I dont understand why the computer isnt booting off of the disk. Any suggestions?
At bootup it may ask you to hit a key within a certain time limit in order to boot from CD. Otherwise windows boots normally if you don’t touch anything.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by shifterAt bootup it may ask you to hit a key within a certain time limit in order to boot from CD. Otherwise windows boots normally if you don’t touch anything.
I pressed F8 and chose CD, and it said that there was not a bootable cd in there so it checked the floppy and than when it didnt find anything then it started normally
[W00t! 500 posts… somehow I expected this post might be just a little bit more exiting… oh well]
Well, I don’t think that it is an error in the burning, because I burnt the first disk again but this time with a program called DeepBurn, which is more popular for burning ISO images, but my computer would still not boot off of it even when I pressed F8 and told it to… well, this is my last attempt before I simply give up on getting linux, so if you had any clue to why its not working, please tell me…
You could always boot with a Windows 98 startup disk from http://www.bootdisk.com and then access I386WINNT.EXE on the CD. Also, loading ‘SMARTDRV’ when the floppy is done booting will grealy speed up the installation process.I should NOT post so early in the morning. Anyways, there are bootdisks for Mandrake available so that you can boot the installation from a floppy. You then have the option to install from CD-ROM, network fileserver, HTTP server, FTP server or even a harddisk image.
For more information, look on the Mandrake website and in the ‘DOSUTILS’ and ‘IMAGES’ directory on disc 1 of Mandrake Linux.
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