[olug] Mandriva 10.1 install

[Rob Townley]

Have you tried using md5summer(?) to verify the files downloaded correctly?

On 4/30/05, Nate <tbrownarcher at cox.net> wrote:
> K.J.Kirwan.
> I have had this problem with certain distros before but I have also had
> success too ... for instance the puter I'm trying to put this on has
> Mandrake 10.0 on it.  I have had in the past certain distros of Red had
> and Suse.. I have never had success with any Debian and have had
> problems with both Red Hat and Mandrake also but I usually have no
> problem.
> I'm basicly a 6 year old NEW user because I don't use it enough to
> become familiar enough with it.
> 
> the computers I have are all 3 running XP.  The one I'm trying to put it
> on is however a 300 mhz DIT special about 4 years old but works fine
> having had a 15 gig partition with XP and a 15 gig partition with
> Mandrake 10.
> 
> I actually suspect that I have done something wrong in the download of
> the 3 disks.  I downloaded them with a 2.8 ghz Del machine.  I burned
> them with a software called Sonic which came with the Del machine which
> is 2 weeks old or less.
> 
> Thank you for the reply ,
> Nate
> 
> 
> K.J. Kirwan wrote:
> 
> >Hi Nate,
> >
> >Always good to see another Mandrake/Mandriva user.
> >
> >Your problem is in two parts:
> >(1) Are you making good disks?
> >(2) Are your PCs able to use a bootable disk?
> >
> >Since (1) is hard to do (and prove!) from Windows, and
> >(2) is either easy or impossible,
> >how about if I burn you a set to get you started?
> >Call me to arrange pickup/delivery, 981-1860.
> >
> >Kim
> >
> >
> >Nate wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I downloaded Mandriva 10.1 (3 iso images) and cannot get them to boot on
> >>any of my 3 windows machines.  can someone tell me if I downloaded the
> >>right stuff or If I have some other problem?  The file names are.
> >>
> >>
> >>Mandrakelinux-13.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586
> >>
> >>Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD2.i586
> >>
> >>Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD3.i586
> >>
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