I can go through the partition screen and set up everything the way I want, ignoring the assertion error which comes up every time I make a choice even though they have to do with hda1, the program aborted with a note to write down the error, and talk to redhat at the point that the formatting of the partitions was to begin. I don't remember the error, but it sounded something like a core dump. . I'm sorry I didn't get the last message, but I can only assume it was related to the error I sighted above. one last note: before I ever flipped jumpers around, I booted into windows with the eight gig drive. Although the bios showed two drives, windows never showed me an additional drive letter representing the new inserted drive. Is this because it was formatted as ext3, or should I have seen a drive letter that would have been inaccessable? Sorry if I'm mixing apples and oranges. any help would be greatly appriciated. p.s. I know a solution would simply be to pull the eight gig out of the system, and just install. I'd preffer not to do this, but as a last resort, I will. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list