B0rked HDD install, 3.3

I've been sticking with 3.3 since I download it a while back but I came to reinstall it today as I need a linux machine for programming on.

Anyway.
I did all the partioning and let it get on with the install. It finished quite the while later and decided it wouldn't boot. I went through the procedure again and it still failed. I decided it was evidentally my partitions and started again.
Now when i boot it tells me there is no memory and forces me to use Shell, which won't let me work as root so I can try repartition using cfdisk.

Any suggestions? (I'd really prefer not to dig out a windows disk if I can)

EDIT; it's letting me view the entire contents of the partions, just not booting into KDE, I'm guessing it could be something to do with lilo?