Mandrake10.0 didn't play well with windows (which I still need for a couple of apps). So, I reformatted my hard drive, reloaded windows and now trying to reinstall mdk9.2 which I've done several times before. However, now install keeps hanging at various stages during the process (once with 10 sec to go...). After trying install many times, I accidently chose the upgrade option instead of install and everything appeared to work fine. However, upgrade skipped the add user and setting root password steps. Since I tried/failed the install first, I don't have any users or root password.
I'm also curious why 9.2 wants to hang during install now when it used to work...anyone have any ideas? When I reformatted/reloaded windows, I only gave it 5g of 80g (I partitioned/formatted 5g as FAT32 in DOS). The rest I left unformatted for linux...does that make a difference?
Only app loaded in windows is Norton Utilities 2003...could that be a problem?
Thanks for any help...