[mikeL]

So your saying you have mandrake downloaded,on your hard drive, and want to install from there, instead of a CD.

In linux your hard drives are shown as:

/dev/hda = primary master
/dev/hdb = primary slave
/dev/hdc = secondary master
/dev/hdd = secondary slave

If Mandrake is sitting on your C: drive then it will be /dev/hda1

as for the directory you'll have to locate it ( see if /cooker/i586 ) is present, then follow the instructions.

HTH - I never tried to install linux from a hard drive before

Mike