Install problems

[EGRET Lures]

Received the lsl CD's last week and installed to C:(3.2 IDE). Everything seem to function and boot brought  up prompt. Installed a second drive (5.1) and cleaned C:. C:was repartitioned for DOS and NT4WS (200mb & 3gb). Linux was then installed on D w/ 3 primary and a 130mb swap. Lilo was installed on hdb1. Bios was set to boot from D: and "LI" appeared with system hanging. Reinstalled with same results. Oddly enough the floppy creation failed every time on the reinstalls unless the disk was repartitioned. Did not change the partition sizes. Any help would be appreciated. Henry