Okay, I try using fdisk and the simulation Rafael provided helped some. However I got on a table and tried entering +150M for the upper limit of my first primary partition cyllinder and was told the value was out of range and the highest I could go was 3. I wish red hat would start labeling things more completely and accurately, it would help out those of us installing for the first time. As things stand now, I don't think I wrote the changes to the disk so possibly nothing is lost. I'm going to need an a/b switch for this speech synthesizer before this installation process is over. As a fallback, given I cannot do this custom installation before tonight and certainly not at the meeting since it takes very long to do it how would I get a workstation installation installation of red hat 7.0 that was installed with whacker@octothorp's boot disk talking? If there's some people at the meeting tonight I can probably get the info on fdisk, but how to get a silent install talking none of them will know. I will find another local member of the penguin club I can talk to by phone as my next installation attempt happens they'll at least be able to look at the print documentation for me. Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>