[newbie] Lilo

2002-07-03 Thread Brian R Koppe
I still have not been able to get LILO working - someone mentioned using the Mandrake install CD as a boot disc and typing repair at the prompt before it goes to the graphical install. Unfortunately, I have no idea where this is - I looked and looked and I see no opportunity to type anything. I

[newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-01 Thread Brian R Koppe
Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no problem. This time, I guess it decided to actually write over the MBR. I know, if I have a Linux boot disk then I could use it and type LILO and it'll

[newbie] HELP!!!

2002-05-07 Thread Brian R Koppe
Boy did I learn my lesson not to play around as root! :-[ Alright, I decided to install some Texstar RPM's last night and some said they needed the latest RPM's from the KDE3 CVS - so, I figured, what the heck, why not install them? So, silly me, I decided to install *some* of the RPM's from KDE