Just installed Mandrake Linux last night, had a lot of trouble with my x display settings- but I finally fixed that.

Now my mouse works, but there is no visible mouse icon. I have a Dell Insipron 8000 laptop with a PS2 tracking ball and touchpad. Needless to say it is a pain in the a**.

The other thing is when I partitioned I used the partition from windows partition option under a recomended install. I gave it a little over 4 gigs, and it split it into two Linux Native partitions 1.6 and 2.5 something like that- What happened there?