Well US note that hdb2 is itself a partition, (the second partition on your second IDE harddrive). What you want to do is create three partitions
hdb2: 125M
hdb3: 512M (type Linux swap)
hdb4: Whatever is left..
you have a mandrake CD and you cant boot and set up off of that?
you have a mandrake CD and you cant boot and set up off of that
"That's the fact, jack" =) I go thru the whole setup, no errors. I have in my windows boot.ini file the correct info for a dual boot. The problem is when I try to copy the boot.lnx file. Inside this file is the junk with the "disk not bootable" written inside of it. When I try to boot into Linux using the boot.ini it goes into the black screen with some "Y"s and indecypherable characters.
This is very frustrating, and I don't want to give up, but I'm wasting way too much time loading, reformatting, reloading, etc. Any help you can give would go a long way toward helping to (maybe) convert an MS person to Linux.