Thanks for your reply re the mailing lists.

I have wanted to try Linux again after many years of absence. I used an early version of Mandrake which I was most happy with. However business activities compelled me to return to and stick with BG's empire which I really did not want to do.

I have recently tried to run a live distro but cannot change, for reasons unknown to me, my bios boot up sequence and therefore cannot boot up either using a floppy or a cd/dvd drive.   Any ideas to get round this would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Mark