Hi all, Welcome, Will, glad to see you here. All the equipment sounds good. The answer to your partitioning question is yes, it can be done. Do not, I pray thee, ask me for technical details; I am not a techie. However, I can tell you that if you go to: http://www.linuxdoc.org/ You will find the howtos. There's a lot of stuff there on hardware, what works, what doesn't. Good luck. Maybe somebody else on here can help you with the technical end of things. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT