Yes, yes you are. Have your monitor specs and video card info ready for that one. And you are on the right track. MDK probably auto-detected your vid card wrong, which explains the good boot, but no screen. You are very close to having a working linux box, actually, come to think of it, it's working fine now, you can do anything from the command line, it just looks very boring. Have fun!!!

Thanks

I tried to do that yesteday afternoon, but we had storms in the area, and I eventually had to shut down because of power outages. I did get through the whole thing once, but, I must've had something wrong, because it didn't work. I'm going to try again this afternoon when I get home from work.

One more question, (and hopefully my last on this subject):

After going through the whole thing to set up monitor, vid card, etc., when you save it, does it get saved to the right place, or do I have to move the saved file somewhere to make it work?

If you are using a recent release, it usually 99.9 percent of the time, goes into your /etc/X11 directory as XF86Config-4 . The config utility may even ask you where to put it. If not, keep track of where the utility put it, and copy it to the correct location /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 .
You can even tell X what config file to use, see the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc directory (could be in a diff place) files for that one.

Well, I decided to reinstall again (sigh), to fix anything that I might have messed up tapping around in prompt. But, this time, I changed some things in the post install for the video settings.[shrugs]

It finally works. EeehHaaw!

Now, I don't think I'll mess with it anymore. Except to figure out how to get online.

you know, i once had a problem similar to that, Klutz, but i was upgrading to 9.1 from 8.2, and it screwed up sector 0. so i think this is a good solution: if it works, leave it alone. if you wanna experiment, find another machine. i use a 386 for testing some new distros

i forgot, to get online you need a non-winmodem. (about 50$)