Hi Group,

I've just tried installing Mandrake 7.1. I've got the SAM's Book "Teach 
Yourself Linux-Mandrake" in 24 hours and, although it refers to Mandrake 
7.0, I followed the install instructions. The place I fell over was in 
configuring the hard drives. I've got 2 drives, a 6.4Gb with Win98 and a 
4.2Gb which I was(am) going to use for Linux. Whatever I did??? overwrote 
the FAT on drive C and the Linux install aborted leaving me with 2 drives 
with nothing on them. 
I've had to reinstall Win98 + software etc. on drive C and I still intend 
to persevere with installing Linux on the second drive.

I've now got 2 problems and I'm hoping someone can help me.
1. Since the reinstall of Win98 it will not recognise my 2nd CD ROM 
(burner) on bootup. If I go into Control Pane, Add New Hardware Windows 
will recognise the burner and makes it available but only until I next 
reboot. Any ideas on how I can get Windows to automatically recognise the 
burner every time I boot?

2. When I reinstall Mandrake 7.1 how do I leave my C drive alone and only 
configure the D drive as my Linux drive?

Any help would be appreciated.

Edwin Johnston

