Hi.
Help. I have just installed Linux mandrake 7.0 Can someone tell me how the
hell you install any software. ie Star office 5.1 PLEASE
Thanks Adrian.
Mark Ward wrote:
> I'm attempting to install Mandrake Linux 7.02 and want to run it through
> BootMagic 1.0 that came with PartitionMagic 4.0
>
> My setup is as follows:
>
> I have two physical hard drives in my computer. The first drive has two
> primary partitions and one extended partition divided into 5 logical
> partitions. The first partition contains Windows 98 Second Edition, the
> second partition contains Windows 2000. The second drive has one primary
> partition and one extended partition divided into one logical partition. On
> the second drive I have installed Linux to the primary partition which I
> believe is listed as hdb1.
>
> When I installed Linux I installed the bootmanager and pointed it to the
> partition hdb1. Read it in here somewhere that this was the thing to do. .
> Now when I boot to Linux using BootMagic the screen flickers madly and the
> printer prints out the screen contents much like someone is sitting there
> pressing [Print Screen].
>
> I can boot Linux using the floppy disk I created and it works great. What
> I'd like to be able to do is boot into Linux using BootMagic. Can someone
> detail the steps involved from the beginning to achieve this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
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