Install Man9.0

[garliclaws]

Ok this is what i am have a problem with
First i have installed my Linus man9.0 on one pc with another os sys.
no problem
Now with this other one which has 2hdd / and both have been zero filled
I formatted the C: drive and change too boot from the cd rom/
It would not boot/
So went into the dir using the cd rom to see if i could boot it from dos
Seen dosutils dir / tried autorun .exe but it said it can only use this program from win32/
What can I do the disks I have are all good for I just used them a few times successfully on other PC's

[Icarus]

What are you talking about?

why am I not locking these threads??

[garliclaws]

Sorry for the confusion in my last requested post.

I have a Mandrake 9.0 version that I tried to Install on my PC.
The PC that I have tried too install this OS on has two HDD, a Master and a Slave installed.
The two HDD drives on the PC have been Zero Filled [ Meaning Completely wipe clean]
Now the Mandrake version 9.0 has several disks two of them are installation disks. These disks are capable of been installed by booting up from your PC. You must change your Booting system through your BIOS, in other words make it boot from the CD ROM with the Boot Installation disk that the OS system supply's. The two Installation disks are No. 1 and No 2.

I have four Computers, two of these computers, I have installed the Mandrake version 9.0. This was accomplished with no problems. The Mandrake OS ver 9.0 installed completely from the CD Roms. What I had on these two Computers that I installed the Mandrake OS to. was two other OS systems previously installed. both were Win98 second edition. I installed the Mandrake ver 9.0 on the free space of the two computers that had Win98second edition. This left me with two OS systems on the two computers. Win98se and Mandrake Linux 9.0 so I was capable of using one or the other OS system.

The computer that I have tried to Install the Mandrake 9.0 on is the first one I have mention above. But it would not install from the cd rom boot disk or installation disk of the mandrake 9.0.
So I partition the first HDD this would be the Master or C: drive
I then formatted it to a FAT32 format using the complete HDD as Primary DOS partition fat32.
This means that there are no other partitions on this master drive HDD.
Now I tried to Install again the mandrake 9.0 version by the cd rom drive.
And it again would not install. So I booted it up again only changing the setting in BIOS setup to Boot from the A: drive using a boot floppy to get me into DOS and install the cd rom.
Then I put the Installation disk into the cd rom drive, and brought up the DIR, I notice in the DIR that there is a DOSUtils Dir
So I wanted to Install Mandrake 9.0 from DOS / To install from DOS would I use this DOSUtils DIR? Or how do I install from the DOS os system?
When I tried it gave a message that - This Program Can Only Be Installed From Win32?
Thank you for your patience

[Hayl]

I don't understand what you are trying to do... are you trying to install Linux? If so, then why are you getting Win32 errors?

[je_fro]

It looks like you're trying to execute one of the DOSutils that are included and are intended to be run from windows. You need to boot a kernel from the CD, instead.

[garliclaws]

Yes I do think you are correct whereas you related that you need a windows program to Install from DOS/ For my previous installs was when I had a Windows OS system already installed. But to install from dos it would probably have to be from a kernel> I do have this OS system [Man9.0] already installed on the other computers. Could I make a boot floppy from them and if I can how do I? When I installed them I failed to make Boot floppy disks/ thinking that I could do it after I installed the OS system>>>?

[je_fro]

Can you boot from a cdrom with this machine or not?

[garliclaws]

It is alright I manage to Install from the 2nd Cd Rom.
I believe the drivers went to my rw drive //
Again thank you for your support///