Hi Ric, >PS: Julian; You're good sport. You'll do OK with this stuff! :)
Cheers Ric - you too :-) b.t.w. In the past hour or so I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. I was a lot more studious of options, and managed to get the installer accept the partitions I'd created in System Commander (a simple /boot, /, /swap setup for now) and things went OK. My just-updated System Commander 7 saw the install (mind you, I was previously at SC2000, which didn't). Only problem was that my CD-ROM drive refused to see my 2ns and 3rd CDs. I burned 'em myself, and Windows see's them. I think I've seen some mention of this before on the list, that sometimes the faster readers are a bit fussy of home-brew CD-Rs. Anyway, I'm now trying to get Samba to work. A Linux share I created was showing upon the Linux box for a while, but then it all went away. I'm really thinking it's Windows, because when I rebooted my RedHat install to cross-check, the shares from that install aren't working either! All I get when I try to access the Linux box in the browser is an invitation to put in a password for the IPC$ share! I'll keep poking at it ;-) j.
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