tehtarek

My problem is as follows: I am installing mdk 10 on a 40gb hdd with an old intel 750 slot chip sitting on a 440bx chipset old motherboard whose bios i cannot find a new upgrade for and therefore hangs at bios stage tying to detect the hdd on auto. I hv to set it to none. So anyway, my objective is to install mandrake on the hdd as normal using new installation, erase all existing partitions. However since only linux can detect the harddisk, I completed the installation but know that it cannot boot cos it cannot read the hdd. I tried to make a boot iso disk but not successful. Basically I am asking if anyone can guide me how to make a bootdisk (floppy or cd) that will start up linux, then moint the harddisk and partitions etc and run from there. Help please, I am a newbie at Linux. Trying to escape from the clutches of 20 years of ms dos to winxp. arrrgh thanks [Edit: I have removed your old post and the link to it - spinynorman]