Hi, I have mandrake 7.02 GPL and I'm confused on how to install it. on most occasions i get a load of 01's flying across the screen and nothing else. What am i doing wrong? I wish to have Windows on one hard disk and linux on the other. Thanks, Craig

I have seen this problem a couple of times. It is usually a corrupted floppy disk. Try booting from the CD and see if you have the same problem. You can use lilo (linux loader) to boot Linux and Windows, but it is safer to boot Linux from a floppy initially. When you have the option of installing lilo choose the floppy option, this way if you screw up you can still boot Windows with no problem. You can install lilo to the mbr later if you choose. There are also third party boot managers that work quite well. I have used System Commander Deluxe to boot many different OS with no problems.

I have a question, I installed Linux Mandrake and everything went fine and I dual booted it with Windows ME. and the lilo bootloader worked fine ( or which ever mandrake uses for a bootloader) but then I defragged my hard drive in windows ME and then all of a sudden my computer wouldn't boot up anymore it moved the bootloader from my MBR or something any one know how to get around that or fix that?

am i the only one who cant get windowsME and mandrake 7.1 on the same computer??? everytime i try and load mandrake it rewrites all my fat32 partitions into non dos and i lose win me, i finally got linux loaded but did it while disconnecting the fat 32 drive, and in the process learned two things, that i cant seem to get lilo to identify winME and that i also cant get system commander to boot into linux (although it recognizes that its a linux partition) what the hell do i have to do? ive reloaded windows and linux numerous times now to no success..... sumone got any idea what i might not be doin right????

When you install Mandrake, choose "custom" and when the partitioning section comes up, make sure your Win ME partition is there on hda and mounted as win fat 32. Delete any partitions on the second drive (hdb, hdc, or hdd usally) and then create your Linux partitions there. Let the program write the partitions to disk and then it will come up with a format choice screen. Make sure you only format the Linux partitions, NOT hda1(Windows)