Mandrake 9.1 Download

[gotit7676]

I'm a newbie that wants to download Mandrake 9.1. But the Mandrake site has all these acronyms that I have no idea what mean. I have just a "regular ol' PC' with a dual boot of XP and Mandrake 9.0. (I think it's a 1.3 GHz AMD processor.)

My question is what download is good for me because I have no idea what SPARC, PPC, AXP, ISO, etc. is? Do I do the i586 download? Is an ISO download good for my situation.

[ashoksagar]

if you have a cd burner, download the first three iso images for i586 and burn them to cd. these are the three images that you need.

[gotit7676]

Will this be an update version (since I already have 9.0 on my machine)? Also, how do I get it onto 3 CD's? Is it in 3 downloads or do you have to do that automatically somehow?

Sorry for my ignorance!

[myshkin]

download the i586 ones. you only need the first cd if you arent trying to install everything. once its done, you have to burn it onto a cd. if you are using windows, nero does that easily, or you can use xcdroast, mandrake comes with it.

heres a link to linuxiso for the 9.1 isos but its almost always full.
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29

now if anyone could provide another link to the isos, will be much appreciative.


:D

[gotit7676]

What do you mean by "always full"? It just won't let you do the download?

Also: I am interested in Mandrake 9.1 to get the latest PHP and MySql. Do you know if these will be on the first CD?

[animex2]

This is what i belive that you should do -

1. Download the three ISO images

2. Burn the ISO images to a cd (iso 1 to cd 1, iso 2 to cd 2 ect...)

3 If you can boot into a cd, skip to step 6

4. If you cant boot into a CD you can make a boot disk by putting the CD in your drive well running windows and click install from flopy.

5. Put a blank flopy in the drive, Let it write to it.

6. Restart the computer with CD (and boot disc if needed) in your drive.

7. When it boots up, hit enter, Mandrake installer will load

8. If you have mandrake installed on your computer click update and skip to step 12

9. If you have just windows installed and you want to install Mandrake, You have to partition your drive.

10. This may wipe out all the data on the drive you wish to partition, so back up all your data.

11. First make a Ext 2 Partition, i would reccomend about 1.5 gig or so. Than make a linux swap, depending on your ram is the size of it. I only have 128 ram so i have 256 swap space. Than the rest of the space you want make Ext3, This is where your data will be stored.

12. Choose what packages you want and install

13. Your done :) Have fun with your new / upgraded Mandrake machine!!!

[gotit7676]

Thanks everyone for all the help!