[Sheflug] couple of things

["Peter Smith" <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

I now have my super new box set up. Just stuck a newer m/board under the old
one really :)
Now have " boot from cd/+ m/board has a scsi adaptec built in, a bit faster
than my old one to I think, but that could be imagination.
So on to todays problems,oops sorry "evenin all". I have Mandrake 7 set up
set it up to use a boot disk as I have had probs while getting to grips with
linux installation before & always seemed to blow away my Win partition too
if I tried to put lilo in mbr, Anyroad the thing is either I used a duff
disk when setting up or it is dying. But whichever it takes about 5 minutes
to boot linux, so I need a new one. I have tried simply copying it but Limux
nor win & not even my trusty old atari will even read the boot disk let
alone copy it.
I have spent 2 nights trying to find docs in mandrake about making a boot
disk but to no avail. Can you help.
Other problem.
I am trying to get to grips with installing software,practising on the linux
format disk, Using rpmdrake I can find and install the rpms but where does
linux put em ?
I have used "find" & still can't figure out how to run the programs. I would
like for instance to make a link from "downloader" to the desktop & run from
there.
Thats enough to keep me busy for the weekend I think,
Thanks all
Pete


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