El lun, 07-10-2002 a las 11:43, Julie escribió: > I recently recieved a free 133mhz machine for free from a friend and I > decided to install the Mandrake 8.0 I had bought some time ago. > Unfortunately I didn't check out the system fully before trying to install, > and after I finished and rebooted, it loaded and the log in screen came up > completely stuffed. I could barely see a portion of the screen and couldn't > click on anything so was unable to log in. It looked fine during setup, but > looked as if it were only in 16 colors. I've tried reinstalling three times > with the same result. Can I possibly boot up from the floppy somehow and > format the drive so I can load Windoze on temporarily just to make sure > there are no hardware problems? I've tried booting from a Windoze98 startup > disk but it's a no go.
Aside from whatever problems your Mandrake installation might have, it sounds like the Windows startup disk you used is damaged. Assuming the BIOS is set to boot from the floppy, a Windows startup disk should boot any PC into DOS, regardless of what is on the hard disk. Try a different startup disk, or download a DOS boot disk from the net (there are several, try Google). Or perhaps the floppy drive is dirty or dead. The Mandrake symptoms you describe may be a configuration problem: wrong video adapter selected, wrong version of XFree86, etc. Give the list some details about your video hardware and configuration. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/
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