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Apr 12^th, 2004, 12:17pm

well aftr becoming quite fed up with windows i have decided to switch to linux for good. i went to mandrakes site and downloaded 10.0. when i went to boot my computer off the disk it skiped past booting from cd and went straight to booting from hardware. i was able to boot from redhat, clarkconnect, knoppix and mandrake 9.0. any suggestions? by the way boot order is floppy, cd, hdd-0

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Franki YaBB Administrator Offline What tha...... ?? :-) Posts: 742 Perth Western Australia Gender:	Re: linux installation Reply #1 - Apr 12^th, 2004, 2:47pm Yup, its a known issue... Just boot from CD 2 and when you are prompted for the first cd, insert that.. then carry on as normal. I didn't have that problem with my hardware, its only some systems/cdroms that have the issue. I am writing this from a mdk10 box ... :-) Interesting sig.. rgds Franki
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Don YaBB Administrator Offline Franki is smarter, but I have more experience! Posts: 212 USA Gender:	Re: linux installation Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2004, 8:38pm He tried it on two out of three boxes. It worked on one of them. The newer ones seemed to be the ones that failed.
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sam YaBB Newbies Offline franki is my hero Posts: 4 Gender:	Re: linux installation Reply #3 - Apr 13^th, 2004, 12:24am wierd how that works....
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Reply #4 - Apr 13^th, 2004, 11:54am

yes apparently it has something to do with the sector that the boot stuff starts on.. they tried a number of ISO's that started before and after the released one and they all worked. so its Kinda like an undocumented blind spot.

My DVDrom and 52x CDROM's both booted from it just fine, only my laptops DVD burner wouldn't boot it.

So anyway, its already fixed for the release of 10 official.

Every time a new release of Mandrake comes out, be it a community or an offical release, they make a new "errata" page to note particular problems found and how to get around them... This one has been on that page for a few weeks now.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3

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sam YaBB Newbies Offline franki is my hero Posts: 4 Gender:	Re: linux installation Reply #5 - Apr 15^th, 2004, 6:04am its kind of odd that nothing came up in google......not that i looked very hard
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Franki YaBB Administrator Offline What tha...... ?? :-) Posts: 742 Perth Western Australia Gender:	Re: linux installation Reply #6 - Apr 15^th, 2004, 2:37pm where you using the linux google? http://google.com/linux I did a search for "mandrake 10 won't boot from CD" http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Mandrake+10+won%27t+boot+f... and it found a ton of stuff. rgds Franki
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suheil mhanna Guest	Re: linux installation Reply #7 - Jul 13^th, 2005, 5:45am Hey Friends .. I have been for 3 days trying to login to the linux ... when I enter my login name and password . .....@localhost appears.. example: loginname :suheil password:**** [Suheil@localhost]$ what do they mean by suheil@localhost If any one can help please..
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Reply #8 - Jul 13^th, 2005, 3:23pm

It sounds to me like you have sucessfully logged into the command line.

You apparently have installed Linux to not boot to the GUI by default.

Can you tell me what version of Linux it is?

type:
uname -a

and tell me everything it says and I'll see if I can help you get the GUI working.

As for suheil@localhost, that just means that you are logged in as suheil and that your linux box's hostname is currently set as localhost.

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