Hi I have a prof that would like me to install RH on his machine and I'm hoping some of you guru types can point out the pitfalls before I fall into them as I'd rather get this one right the first time and not have him breathing down my neck while recovering from all the stupid mistakes I'm sure I'll make. The box is a Dell Dimension XPS P800R running Win98. It says family 6, so I assume this means a 686 PIII. Nvidia GeForce 256 AGP and a P1110 monitor. there's only 1 disk on it (Maxtor 5 4098H8) with one partition on that -- 36G. As I'm sure you can tell, I'm learning Windows slowly (as possible!) as I've managed to avoid it for quite a while. All the machines that I've installed onto so far have been NT with 2 separate disks on which I managed to keep the 2 OS's at the front of the 2 disks. The first problem I see is the repartitioning of the disk. Fdisk I assume, but what will this do to the OS? Reinstall I suppose. Thanks for any help you can offer. Ed Hoeffner 1-271 BSBE 312 Church St. SE Mpls, MN 55455 hoeffner at dcmir.med.umn.edu 612-625-2115 612-625-2163 fax