Floppies suck. Find alternatives whenever possible. I would imagine the CD is bootable, you could try going into your BIOS and setting your system to boot off the CD first. If that doesn't work, try to boot your system with a DOS floppy with CD-ROM drivers. I know that many versions of RedHat have a batch file on the disc that bootstraps using loadlin, Mandrake should have something like that as well. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Puritanism: The haunting / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ fear that someone, \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) somewhere may be happy. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org