Don't waste your time. No sooner had I sent the message (under NT) than I discovered the problem. Using Partition Magic 5 I discovered that star office had filled up the main Linux partition. I therefore enlarged that partition and now Mandrake boots up fine. This may be a good reason to create a separate /opt partition which would not affect the system partition. Mandrake 7.1 created 2 partitions plus a swap. The other partition is largely empty. I am not sure what is in it. Question remains if the partition filled before Star completed its install or if it is only partly installed. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185
