Mike, Here is the long answer (not exactly what you want, but will tell you exactly if you can get there with your current mobo and bios): http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ and more specifically the bios limits (and some tricks to work around some bios issues) - one of the issues that I ran in to that this guy seems to have figured out a way to get around is to run both gdisk and fdisk, but the fdisk is just used for making a valid partition table to satisfy the bios, but is not used for booting the system. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html#bios Shorter here, but less coherent: http://penguinpackets.com/~kelly/kblog/blog/01288983871 I usually use a current Sysrescuecd to set up partitions and just have Ubuntu install to what I created with Sysrescue (YMMV). Good luck! Kelly -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111002/3e0ac09c/attachment.html>