"What I discovered is that since my BIOS does not support large hard drives, a utility called EZ-Dive from Maxtor allows the BIOS to see my drives. They are an 8 GB and a 2GB. Mandrake is on the 2 GB."
Here is a thread which explores the EZ-Drive problem:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=68530
"1. Is it possible to create a floppy boot disk for Mandrake 9.2? If so, what is the procedure and exactly what are the keyboard commands to access the Linux partitions?"
Yes, the procedure is distribution independent and I use it routinely. Section 8 of the following HOWTO explains how it is done:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html
"I did search the boards and found information about the boot floppy using superformat but the solution required you to be in Linux to create the boot disk."
You can boot your install CD, go into rescue mode, and use the rescue mode to boot into Linux. This is awkward but it does get you into Linux so that you can then create a boot floppy.
Of all the various solutions I suggest that you reinstall Linux with the first partition being /boot so that the kernel is within range of your BIOS.
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Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD.
http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html
Steve Stites