On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> No, the CD won't run in Linux without the files on the floppy. LILO
> won't boot either. I think it has to do with the position of the Lxt2 on
> the drive which is at the end of a 8.4gb.
>
Hmm....then, I guess your best bet is to order a Mandrake
CD from somewhere like Cheapbytes where you can get it for
$5 including shipping. :-) THEN, you'd at least have a
pretty good idea if the CD was bad or not... and you'd not
be out much.
BTW, LILO won't work if you don't have the kernel within
the first 1024 cylinders on the hard drive. Putting it at
the end of a 6.4 Gig hard drive may be the main problem.
One thing you might do differently next time is use
Partition Magic to create a small (5-10 megs should be
sufficient) ext2 partition (or just an empty partition --
Disk Druid should recognize the empty space and auto-create
a partition) at the head of your hard drive and call it
/boot. Then, Linux will install the kernel there and LILO
*should* work. BTW, Linux also has a non-destructive
partitioning util. I think it's called FIPS and it *should*
be on the CDROM in the /dosutils directory.
John
