I've had pretty good luck installing Linux on a machine that already had NT. Because I'm lazy, I just bought a second hard drive for the linux install and that minimized problems with the dual boot. It's a minor nuisance to set up the boot partition so the NT loader can get at linux, but only a minor one. One thing I don't know, since the NT I have is v 4, is whether the newest NTFS (5), with Win2K, is readable by the ntfs filesystem module.... R