Gentoo problem

[KoolDrew]

I downlaoded Gentoo from http://linuxiso.org. The universal one and when I boot it up it says "Could not find Kernal Image" Did I do antying wrong? I downaldoed the ISO and burned it to the CD but thats the error I get.

I also tried booting up Mandrake just to see if ti worked cuz I was bored and it said it could not read from the CD-ROM. It booted fine but when trying to install it can't read from CD-ROM. I think this problem is similair to my Gentoo problem

EDIT; Just so you know the system I am installing Gentoo on is an old Pentium MMX 200MHz setup. I will try to see if Gentoo works with my current PC
EDIT2: I just tried to install Gentoo on my current rig and I have the same problem so its not the PC. Did I burn it wrong or downloaded something wrong or what?

 

[Sunner]

Maybe something's up with your burner?
Having read errors on two CD's would suggest either a CD writer or a CD reader problem to me.

 

[KoolDrew]

Mandrak works perfectly fine on my current rig though. JUst not my old rig. I did burn Mandrake a logn tiem ago though so my gentoo problem probally could of been caused by crappy CD's or burner. The CD-R's I ahve now seem to keep freezing when finalizing the CD. I may go to the store and buy some new CD-R's and see if it helps.

 

[KoolDrew]

Well since I was having problems with Gentoo I am now just installing Slackware as installation is easy and it is working.

 

[Praetor]

download knoppix, open xterm, download stage1* image, mount the drives and have at it. All while using a working linux install while gentoo is compiling.

 

[KoolDrew]

Thanks for the suggestion Praetor but since I have been installing slack for a couple hours I am going to stick with that for a little while and then install Gentoo. I will download Knoppix now though for future needs.

 

[KoolDrew]

I finished installing Slackware but there is no GUI at all. Just a black screen. Did I forget to install something and is there anyway to install it wihout redoing everything?

 

[pac1085]

If you did a full install of Slackware it comes with X and various WMs/DEs but you need to manually configure X and then copy over the .xinitrc file from /etc/Sessions (I think its there, somone correct me if im wrong...) to your home folder.

 

[KoolDrew]

After a quick google search I found out how to change it. Now my question is where is my CD-ROM drive loacted? What folder? I want to listen to soem musci but dont know where the CD is

 

[kEnToNjErOmE]

You have to mount it.