This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01C233D7.92575F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello all, I have made a slight mistake during the last week or so. I installed = Mandrake 8.0 without sighted assistance. It was actually straight = forward most of the time. The installation went ok a part from the = minor problem of KDE loading up at start up. With sighted help I got = back into the bash prompt. Still, I prefer Red Hat so tried to = uninstall Mandrake. Couldn't find the uninstall option any where so = decided to do it threw windows. I used partition magic to delete the = partitions and make the c partition bootable again. Thinking that would = work I restarted the computer but to my annoyance no luck. I've had to = re-install Mandrake so as I can access the ntfs partition. So, now to = the question, does any one know how I can successfully uninstall = Mandrake without this happening? Oh, I should add that when mandrake = was installed it booted straight into it. I found that holding down the = escape key bought me into a screen where I could type "nt" to get back = into windows. This didn't work with Red Hat 7.0. I'm not too sure if I'm accurate in this assumption but, would I be = right in thinking that the partition that is booted can be changed threw = the BIOS? The reason that I ask is I don't hear the hard disc spin when = I get into the operating system list. =20 Thanks again for al your help I am sure I'm close to actually getting this system set up on this = computer. =20 Darragh ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01C233D7.92575F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have made a slight mistake during the = last week=20 or so. I installed Mandrake 8.0 without sighted assistance. = It was=20 actually straight forward most of the time. The installation went = ok a=20 part from the minor problem of KDE loading up at start up. With = sighted=20 help I got back into the bash prompt. Still, I prefer Red Hat so = tried to=20 uninstall Mandrake. Couldn't find the uninstall option any where = so=20 decided to do it threw windows. I used partition magic to delete = the=20 partitions and make the c partition bootable again. Thinking that = would=20 work I restarted the computer but to my annoyance no luck. I've = had to=20 re-install Mandrake so as I can access the ntfs partition. So, now = to the=20 question, does any one know how I can successfully uninstall Mandrake = without=20 this happening? Oh, I should add that when mandrake was installed = it=20 booted straight into it. I found that holding down the escape key = bought=20 me into a screen where I could type "nt" to get back into windows. = This=20 didn't work with Red Hat 7.0.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm not too sure if I'm accurate in = this assumption=20 but, would I be right in thinking that the partition that is booted can = be=20 changed threw the BIOS? The reason that I ask is I don't hear the = hard=20 disc spin when I get into the operating system list. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks again for al your = help</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I am sure I'm close to actually getting = this system=20 set up on this computer. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>Darragh</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01C233D7.92575F60--