Startup Problem plz help

[stephenj52002]

I'm new to linux and i just finished installing Mandrake Linux 8.2. I was having problems booting before so someone told me to install everything which i did. After installation and rebooting it asked for a floopy which i put in and it took me right back to the installation page. Did i do something wrong? Ive tried everything and it just wont work so plz help.

Thanks :)
Stephen

[fancypiper]

Perhaps it was asking for the boot floppy disk that you made during install (I hope you made one) rather than an installation floppy disk which you apparently inserted.

Mandrake Users (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/) website

[stephenj52002]

I remeber that it went through the install process and there was a thing for making a boot floopy but it didnt ask for a floppy

[fancypiper]

Will it boot with no floppy or cd in the drive? If not, re-read the installation proceedure and make a boot floppy on the next install in case you screw up somehow. Have a Windows boot floppy handy as well if you dual boot so you can recover the mbr for Windows.

If it will boot, you're ready to start.

[stephenj52002]

do i have to do that or can i out the mandrake cd in my windows computer and make one from there.