Creating a boot disk

Creating a boot disk

If your CD-ROM is not bootable then you must create a bootable disk floppy to start the installer. When you insert the CD disk1 in windows, it will "auto-run".

If auto-run isn't enabled, you can launch it by selecting "autorun.exe" from the "dosutils" directory of the Installation CD. See figure

Once auto run is executed you will se this screen,

Click on Install mandrake Linux using floppy to create the boot disk.

Browse for the image file (for CD-based installation) called "cdrom.img" located in the "/images" directory of the Installation CD Disk1, see fig. 1.6.

• Select the image file
• Click on "Write" to create the boot disk.

After it finishes writing, leave the floppy disk in the drive and reboot your computer to start the installer. For other types of installations (such as network installations, hard drive, PCMCIA) you can create the disks from the other images.

At this point we are already in business. The installation should start by using the bootable disk you just created. If for some reason your floppy is ignored at the boot point, it is because your boot sequence in the bios is not set to boot from the floppy.

To boot from the floppy, you must change the sequence in the bios and make the floppy your first boot device. If you want to boot from the CD-ROM you will have to do the same thing change the boot sequence to CD-ROM as your first boot device.