> > when I created it. I do get an option though while Mandrake is > > loading to boot into linux, fail-safe, or floppy.
I just caught this part. I wonder, when you get to this section while mandrake is booting, which option do you choose??? "linux" would be the choice you want. do you get past this point? Mandrake doesn't actually start loading until you hit enter on "linux" If you don't know your Mandrake password there is a method to change the password. I would have to research it, or perhaps someone else knows off the top of their head, I don't remember how to get to single user mode using lilo. You can search for "single user mode lilo " on google and find lots of answers. As far as booting off a floppy you can make a floppy disk that will load the cdrom drivers and run your install from there. Do you know how? Most distros include the tools to do this. Put the mandrake cd in your windows machine, a dir called "dosutils" has the exe for creating boot disk and the dir "images" has the files you will need to use. to get the install program to use the cdrom make a floppy boot disk using the "rawwritewin.exe" program use the file in the "images" dir called "cdrom.img" alternatively you could use "network.img" to install your distro from a ftp, http or other network location. Does this help? Brad B
