[G4] Mandrake 8.2 onto a G-4 questions from a complete newbie to linux

Lee ratman at cq.net
Thu Feb 6 05:09:06 PST 2003


On Thursday, Feb 6, 2003, at 04:15 US/Central, cowinacape wrote:

> Howdy,
>
>  I have down loaded two disk images from the mandrake linux web site, 
> (both
> are in iso format) well for the life of me, I can not seem to boot 
> from the
> images or copies I have made of the disks, I am assuming there is 
> something
> I have done wrong in trying to get from the iso format to something 
> useable.
>

I think your  making the disk the wrong way. I believe there is an 
option in Toast to burn a disk from an image. Don't try to mount the 
image first. That should solve your problem of making  bootable disk.

Lee

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