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Master of Reality:
if you click delete (on some you have to hit "F2") when your computer starts up, when the memory count is going. You will go into your BIOS, and there should be somewhere in there where you can set boot sequence. Your boot sequence isusually set to hard drive,floppy,cdrom or something like that, you have to change it to so that cdrom is first.

trc3:
Well i went into BIOS and changed it so the cd drive was first then floppy then the hard drive, but it still kinda boots normal but it give me all these weird error messages like:

getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/consol: operation not supported by device

then its says:

getty[223]: login_tty /dev/console: operation not supported by device

it repeates that a few times then says the first message agian, Would disabling the hard drive all together work?..

voidmain:
If your machine will boot other CDs and not the Mandrake CD then you've messed up in creating the CD.  Did you download the *.ISO images in binary mode? If not, it's time to redownload them.  Also, did you select in your burning software that it was an *.ISO image? If you did it correctly you should be able to put the CD in any other machine that IS running and see many files and directories on the CD.

askani:
well, they said pretty much everyithing. Try to use Adaptec East CD Creator 5+ to burn your MDK CDs or CD-R Win. Those I think are the two progs with the best ISO support. Pop the MDK CDs that you have in the CD-ROM and if it reads them you should be fine. If you don't wanna mess around in your BIOS, or if your machine still won't boot the CD you can make a boot floppy which will work just as well as a CD-ROM, albeit a little slower. Just go into the dosutils folder on the first CD and run rawritewin.exe (the one with the penguin icon) and select images\cdrom.img as the image to WRITE. Then put a floppy in, write the image and boot with the floppy and the first(install) CD in their drives.

askani:
oh, and if you've still got windoze try to go into device manager and look at display adapters. You get the device manager by right clicking my computer and selecting properties then you go to the hardware tab and click on device manager (ME/XP/2k) or just click the device manager(9x) tab i think. let me know what windowze you have and if this was any help. there are other ways but this is the one that requires the least physical interaction with the innards of the computer.  

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