I have just downloaded the above, burn it to disk, created a floppy boot disk for the cdrom, and then press ok, from then it says

 

'Could not open compressed ramdisk file (/sysroot/tmp/image/install/stage2/mdkinst_stage2.bz2).'

 

i dont understand why or how to bypass or fix? i would appreciate any help

can you please post links to exactly WHAT you downloaded

 

and why are you creating a boot disc for the cdrom ? mandrake can boot on cd1

 

just check your bios can support booting from a cdrom

 

cheers

 

anyweb

[/url][url=http://text.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.ui...l/iso/10.1/i586]http://text.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.ui...l/iso/10.1/i586

 

the compaq deskpro i use, the cd drive, will read the disksi burn, but it wont boot off it, unless im creating the disk wrong. i download all three disks, and i just dont know why it cant open it. i know i can boot of disks, it did that when i installed windows 98.

 

the spec of the compaq is as follows,

1999 model deskpro.

p3 450mhz

128mb ram

40gb hdd

 

thanks

 

SMDR

 

I have now sorted it, it was how i was creating the cd

check the bios settings for your compaq (in the boot order screen)

 

you must have CD before HD in order to boot from a bootable cd

 

cheers

 

anyweb

Also, when burning ISO images, don't forget to burn TAO, not DAO. This is the default used by cdrecord, but most GUI CD burners use DAO, IIRC.

Oops. Sorry for double post.