Hi guys,

I'd like to know how I should burn stated release on DVD;
I have an *.idx file, an *.iso file and two *.asc files.
What should I do with them? I already screwed up once and
I don't want to burn it all again.

Thanks in advance,

Karloman

Just simply open K3B hit the "tools" (or something like that) menu scroll down and you should find a: "burn from DVD ISO" menu point, choose it than it will get a new window where you can browse where your .iso file is (don't bother with the other files it will only let you choose the .iso) double click it and than wait untill it checks the md5 sum (you will see the status if you scroll down the the information window that appears after double clicking the .iso file) If the progres reaches 100% and you'll get a green "checked" icon than you're ready to go.... chosse your writer and writing speed and hit the start or write button

I am actually burning it with Windows (I know, but I'm getting into Linux);

What do I have to do about the idx file? and ofcourse the MD5 checksum?

Use Nero or any other burning program supporting ISO files. You just need the *.iso file. But you MUST burn as an image, do NOT burn as normal data CD/DVD (only the ISO file on it). Go in the menus it's in there somewhere (sorry, but my Nero is in German and I don't have it in front of me).

If you only have M$ crap, you can try following program:
http://demosten.com/cdrfe/#download (option "burn CD -> data CD (from image)" looks like what we want)
or
http://www.deepburner.com

Hope this helps

so I burned it right twice;

yet in the installation a "media.cfg error" keeps coming up :'(

You actually get to boot the CD on your machine? This means you have burned it correctly indeed. You may check md5 sum in this case. Maybe the download got corrupted somehow. In this case you will need to find an Md5 program for Windows and use the file wich has .md5.asc in the extension (if the program does only compute the checksum, you may open the file with any text editor and check manually).

Otherwise the error message doesn't help me much. Where does it appear in the installation process (when you select installation language, after partitioning drives, etc.)?

hi,

it appears after I partion my remaining 20 gb in reiser swap reiser;

I already checked the MD5sum and it seems correct...
do you have any idea what could be wrong?

Dooh! Looks like some nagging problem with the partition program . If possible, let Mandriva decide how to partition those 20GB, it should use ext3 (and linux-swap for swap partition). But unluckily I won't be able to help you much with partitioning problems.

If Md5 are OK chances are that CD's are OK too. Especially if you let Nero or K3b check the written data.

so if I were to partion my drive with something other than mandriva, it should be able to install?

... probably. If you happen to have a partitioning program you may try following:

1 primary partition for / (ext3; about 5-8GB)
1 extended partition subdivided in:
- 1 logical swap partition (linux-swap; about the size of your RAM)
- 1 logical partition for /home (ext3; rest of space, your data will be saved here)

This is the usual way of partitioning a desktop Linux system. Of course, other variants are possible, but I have no experience with it.

How is your hard disk partitioned before these 20GB? One single FAT32/NTFS partition (C:\)? If not, that may be the cause.

Thank you for all the help guys;

I finally managed to pull it off

I first installed Ubuntu (Breezy Badger) after which I inserted my Mandriva DVD and told it to format the first partition; It gave another few faults and errors, but just clicking okay worked fine;

I'll now be enjoying a hardearned game of Flatout

Thanks guys!