Which form of Mandrake did you download?  The ISO image, or the
directory tree?  Your best bet, if you want to install on a different
machine than you downloaded on, would be to burn a CD with the ISO
image.  The CD would be bootable, no floppy necessary, unless you have
old BIOS.  If you downloaded the directory tree, you can do a network
install, if both machines are on a network.  You just need to share
the directory tree on the download machine (I assume you're using
Windows).  Then boot the other machine from a floppy with the
appropriate image on it, and install away!  I believe, if you want to
install from a Windows share, you'd use /images/bootnet.img.  Read the
README first.  As for partitioning, check the list archives.  There was
a thread on it some time back, the subject line was "install problems 13.0gig"

-Matt Stegman

On 16 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I downloaded all 500+ Meg of Mandrake 6.0 onto my hard drive. The
> trouble is, I don't know what to do now!
> 
> What I'd like to do is install Mandrake on another machine (not the one I
> downloaded from). I assume I can do something like copy some files I
> downloaded onto a floppy, and boot form that. But how?
> 
> I'd also like to get started on partitioning this other machine. The good
> news is it doeesn't have any OS on it at all. I'd like to make it dual boot
> for Win98 and Linux. So what do I do? Or put another way - what's the FAQ
> or whatever that talks about partitioning, since EVERYone has this question
> at one time or another (well at least everyone running Linux and another OS).
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Chris

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