OErjan thanks for your rather significant research effort. However, I took a more direct approach. I used the Mandrake disk partitioner on their Disk 1 and deleted all partitions on the HDD, then created a FAT32 partition using the entire HDD. I then used FDISK to delete that partition and subsequently created a new Primary DOS partition, formatted, and installed Win ME. I had to do this because even after deleting all partitions, the Lilo boot utility was still there and that was the only way I could get rid of it.

Unfortunately, looking at your solution brings back very unpleasant memories of endless hours of manually entering code while trying to get my application to work, only to find out that I didn't have "permission" to perform a given function. Those were significant factors in killing my interest in Linux.

In defense of Knoppix, In addition to Knoppix I tried Fedora, SuSE, and Mandrake. Knoppix(3.7) was by far the best distro. It recognised my sound and video cards easilly, and the GUI portion was fairly straight forward.

Thanks again,
Mike