<< Have you tried booting from CD1? You can also use the rawrite feature that is on CD1, I believe.
Ah. I searched my Mandrake CD and found this in a README.
3 - If your computer cannot boot from the CDROM and previous methods
do not work, you must make a boot floppy under Windows as follows:
* insert the CDROM, then open the icon "My Computer", right click
on the CDROM drive icon and select "Open"
* go into the "dosutils" directory and double-click on the
"rawwritewin" icon
* insert a blank floppy in the floppy drive
* select "D:\images\cdrom.img" in the "Image File" field (assuming that
your CDROM drive is "D:", otherwise replace "D:" as needed)
* select "A:" in the "Floppy Drive" field then click on "Write".
To begin the installation, insert the CDROM in the drive, as well as the
boot floppy if necessary, then restart the computer.
Hope this helps. >>
thanks ehobax, i found out its my linux ISO image file. i burned another copy and it wont read either. im redownloading the ISO