I have no problems booting the Mandrake disk. It goes fine up with changing partitions, mounting partitions, but after I have selected the software it takes a very long time to say problems installing every single package.
On Wednesday March 31 2004 02:50, you wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20:29, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > > I would have guessed that reformatting the disk would wipe everything out > > but it seems not to be the case. > > That is your MBR not your disk partitions working, your disk MBR is the > first 512 bytes and is NOt a partition as such. > > If you boot from a CDrom or floppy then you will have no problems with your > disks MBR (Master Boot Record) as it will be ignored. > > Mandrake cdroms are bootable, you will possably need to set your BIOS to > boot from CDrom, is that your problem, you seem to be getting things all > mixed up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
