Mandrake on 1.2GB hdd?

[hulkMAD]

edit: im installing Mandrake 9.2 and it says i have only about 500 megabytes of hdd space when i really have 1.2 gigs. did it somehow format my hdd in the wrong format or something? i want the rest of my hdd! help...

[CMonster]

1. what kind of hardware is this?

2. it may have to do with your BIOS settings if you are trying to install Linux on a very old system.

3. did you try deleting all the existing partitions and creating new ones?

[MadMan2k]

http://linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=44
Maybe you should use knoppix, it boots from a CD, and I don't think it has to install anything on the hard drive. That might be a good idea if space is an issue.

EDIT:
You might also want to use FDISK to remove the partitions, and recreate them. To run FDISK, boot from an MS-DOS bootable disk or CD (floppy disk: http://bootdisk.com/), (CD: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/)