help
 

first off my red hat box mysteiriously crashed a little while ago, it will boot fine but when it reaches the login screen my mouse and keyboard are disabled like my computer is frozen from the moment the red hat interface boots.
i am not to upset because i was planing on getting rid of it and have all the data backed up. now the real question i have is how do i get rid of redhat from the boot sequence, and secondly how do i put mandrake ten on a blank machine? ( i already have downlaoded and burned the mandrake cds.):cry: :cry: :cry:

If your problem is not due to any hardware problem you can safely try to install mandrake over your old redhat instalation and install your new boot loader in the same partition where the old one was. That should overwrite it.

I'm not a mandrake user but i think that mandrake formats the hard drive partitions before installing. Check this and all will be fine.

You have to edit fstab an delete the options of the redhat partition. You can use a live cd like Knoppix.
To install madrake boot your computer from the fisrt of the three cds

ive treid to boot of the cd while red hat is still on the machine but it says faliure

If you want to recover your instalation you can boot with the red hat cd but in recover mode.
At the prompt type "linux recover"
And select yes to the option of mounting the local filesystem.

After that you will have a root shell to edit your files.

If the rh cd fails to boot maybe something is crashed ....