Guest Falcon Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 This is my first attempt at installing Linux. I am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on my Pentium 200 machine. I followed the instructions and turned PNP off in the BIOS, I also set it to boot from CD-ROM first. I put the Install CD in and clicked install, the machine then tries to re boot, I get the following error: OS load in progress... ISOLINUX 1.76 Mandrake Linux isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed. Does anyone know what this means and what I have to do to fix it? THANKS!! Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Welcome to the board! Where did you get the cd's? If you downloaded it, did you run the md5sum to verify the integrity of the download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazeman Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 I know the exact answer to your question. Those old machines are not supporting the boot from CDROM properly or doesn't support at all. I would suggest you to get the floppy.img on some floppy and boot with it when your install cd is in the cdrom. Hope this helps. Phazeman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 How much RAM do you have? dma can be an issue as well. At the first spashcreen press F1>then at the command prompt run; linux ide=nodma <and press Enter> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Falcon Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Thanks for all of the feedback! Ixthusdan, I actually purchased the box version so my CD's are from the factory. How do I run the md5sum? phazeman, is the floppy.img something that I can copy off of my install CD? Also, if I boot up this way will I still get the graphical install? Do I need to reset my BIOS to boot from floppy first in this case? bvc, my machine only has 96mb of RAM.. Thanks again Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Falcon Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Since my last post, I have tried using a boot floppy. I get the point where I can enter or hit F1. I have tried both and I cannot get the installation wizard started. It asks me to select one of my drives and when I do it doesnt recognize a file system. I thought this thing was supposed to have a nice graphical interface?????? I have no idea what to do at this point. Anybody?........ Anybody?......... Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Since my last post, I have tried using a boot floppy. I get the point where I can enter or hit F1. I have tried both and I cannot get the installation wizard started. It asks me to select one of my drives and when I do it doesnt recognize a file system. I thought this thing was supposed to have a nice graphical interface?????? I have no idea what to do at this point. Anybody?........ Anybody?......... Falcon did you try entering linux=nodma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Falcon Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it. I got the following message: could not find kernal image: linux=no.dma Then it proceeded with the boot and took me to the point I was before. Does that tell you anything? Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Falcon Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 FINALLY, I got it working! Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 :D How? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Falcon Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 I guess since my machine is so old it wasn't able to boot from the CD-ROM. So I made a boot floppy. The key to it was using the cdrom.img NOT the hd.img (as I was trying to do at first). Once I did that I booted from the floppy and put install CD 1 in my CD Drive and the graphical install wizard came online. From there it is reading my CD-ROM drive just fine. So far everything is going ok...Thanks to those who helped!! Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boonie Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Do you know what version of Staroffice comes with the box set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Falcon Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 9.1 PowerPack Edition comes with OpenOffice 1.0.2 & KOffice 1.2.1. Check out this link... http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/9.1/features/ Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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