I usually start off with a boot from System Rescue CD (includes gparted as well as gdisk). http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage Set up partitioning much like Mike has done, and follow up with install with distro of choice. Plus, the SysRescue CD comes in handy if things go off the rails later. Kelly -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120503/2de0668a/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120503/2de0668a/attachment.ksh>