Hello y'all, I am a complete Linux n00b but I do like to mess with new things and I have been trying out various Linux distros for the past few months but I have up and run into some problems. These occured last night while I was trying to install Linux. First I tried Mandrake 9.0 (Just the one that you can download off their site, not the ProSuite or anything cool like that)I popped the installation CD into my DVD-ROM and rebooted my computer from Windows XP (with the first service pack installed. Also all of my drives execpt for a small 5GB partition that I left for Linux are NTFS, if that has anything to do with it). Anyways, so I rebooted and the "Mandrake Linux Press enter to install or F1 for more options" menu came up, I pressed enter of course and everything went fine until it went to load the operating system into memory so that it could install onto my Harddrive and then it just stopped, I pressed Alt+F4 to look at the Kernel's messages to see what it would say about all of this. It was giving me some sort of message about not being able to read the CD or something similar to that.(Next time I try this I'll see about writing down the actual messages)So I gave up on that and pulled out RedHat(I forgot the version, it was the one right before they released 8.0, so I think it is 7.2)And it installed beautifully but when it rebooted it totally just skipped the boot loader and went straight into Windows (I was using LILO with agraphical menu) So I don't think I set that up right or it chose not to write to my drive...And Lastly I pulled out my old copy of RedmondLinux because I really wanted to mess around with Linux last night, but that to wouldn't install, I think it was having a problem similar to Mandrake, like it didn't want to copy into memory or something. So I don't know, if anybody knows what is going on I'd like to hear what they have to say.
Thanks for you time!
Das Falke