Mandriva Linux Problem

Hey, I just finished downloading the Mandriva Linux DVD iso and mounted it. After I mounted it I clicked the install button. I was felling all happy because I finally downloaded the 2gig file. But after I clicked the button nothing happened. I just sat and waited. Soon I started kicking my computer, but thats a whole other story. Can anyone help me out, I really want to get Linux working.

If you have a dvd burner you could try burning it to a disk and booting off of it... Other then that I dont know. I don't have too much experience with installation problems

Thx, I booted it from the dvd that I burend and it seems like it is working fine.

OK now I have installed Mandrake but when I restart my computer it says NTLDR Missing.I'm thinking something like "WTF?"

Muhahaha! Nevermind about that one boys I fixed it myself. All I did was reinstall it but made it copy the cd's to my hd. I'm running Linux right now. I feel so... powerfull.

cool.. you have no idea how easy you have it...when i started out with linux in the redhat 8 days, i had an un-supported video card, forcing OpenGL compatability with MessaGL... and an un-supported win-modem.took me 7 days to force that modem to dial up the internet.

Friend of mine is going to be trying to use that same system.Did you partition your drive or are you using it on an external drive?Sounds like my friend is thinking of buying an external drive so she won't hurt her main computer.

Yeah I partioned it I think I gave windows about a fourth of the drive.

We gave about 75% percent of the drive space to Windows in partition.. Though not by choice! I have huge Photoshop files (brushes, PSD's etc) and an odd assortment of games which are pretty much leeching all our space.

Yea I keep my linux partition only running on a small chunk of my drives since I keep most of my large data on my windows partition (*cough downloaded games cough*)I actually am planning on switching to a dif linux distro, I ran on mandrake 10 for a fair while but now I'm toying with dif ones, currently running ubuntu and it seems alright...anyways thats somewhat irrlevant to all of you haha.But yea man, glad burning them to a disk helped! Have fun exploring linux

Heh, I remember when I started out with Linux. RedHat 7.0. Bought it in a box on a school band trip. I saw it on a shelf while browsing a Babbage's, and I just had to have it. I had been waiting years upon years to come in contact with something to put on ym computer other than Windows, which I have despised since the first day I used it (back when Windows 3.0 was just released. I was a dedicated Apple II user before the introduction of the 486.) Everyone looked at me like "We go on a band trip, everyone is loaded with spending cash, and you bought....SOFTWARE???" (Not to mention no one knew what it was).Luckily for me, I had slightly old hardware, and all of it was supported. Problem was, it was slow. Damn slow. Not even a month later, I caught myself installing Slackware. Then later on down the road came lots more slackware, along with trying a few others just for the hell of it, SuSE, Mandrake, Lycoris (the worst distro ever), Debian, but always came back to Slack. Why? I learned more every day with Slack. Then I started floating away from Linux, but not towards Windows..No way. That's never happening. I floated towards Solaris, and played with that for a while, but then decided Solaris was nice, but it just dodn't do it for me. The only linux that did it for me was Slackware. Am I using slackware now? No... I drifted away from unices based on System V, and ran a net-install of OpenBSD, and here I am today, loving it, although I do miss my Slack from time to time.Basically, a long story short, unix (linux included) is just something you keep learning once you get on it...you get hooked. You will learn a large wealth of knowledge just in the next month, and it will rapidly grow. Soon, you may have your drive partitioned to be dedicated to unix/linux-only. Also, it may take a few diffrent distros to find your "home". Mine is still Slack, but there's something about OpenBSD that just pulls me in...so if Mandrake just doesn't do it for you, give another a try (I recommend Slack if that's the case) anyways, welcome to (in your case) Linux. You will be very happy here, and your bottles of aspirin will last longer.

Yup, for any OS you have to burn it and reboot. You can't generally install Linux from within windoze... SuSE is better than Mandrake anyway, tho.