Yes, I seemed to remember you saying it was Mandrake, as well. When people on here ask "Which distribution is good for a beginner?" I tend to say "Mandrake" I forget sometimes that Mandrake likes to put a lot of "bleeding edge" software (beta stuff) in their distribution. Their installation and setup is a breeze for me, but I tend to fix problems as they arise without a second thought now. I do this because of experience. I have been using Linux since late '99 (and tried to use it off and on a couple of years before that.) We quickly did away with Windows on our system. I didn't miss anything (except some of my favorite games that are collecting dust.) I really would like to help. I know others here would, as well. In '99, it took me a month to finally get all of the right hardware. (I had a winmodem, an unsupported (by X) video card, a buggy sound card, and an unsupported printer. After getting the right video card, We couldn't get our monitor to look decent with any of the standard X configurations. I ended up having to learn to hack the X config file by hand to tweak it.) It was rough, and I got flamed a LOT when I asked "dumb" questions, but it was worth it. I expect I will get flamed a LOT while trying to learn OpenBSD. The BSD community seems to think Linux users are almost as worthless as Windows users. Good luck, and please let us help, if you are still interested in learning.

Happy Hacking