Richard, I am only installing redhat on this machine nothing else. I was just using a win98 recovery boot disk so that I could have access to fdisk. Thanks for the response, though. I now do have a working version of redhat from clarkconnect but now I have a little bit of a different problem...How do I properly shut it all down. I cannot get exit or logout or quit to do anything. Yes yes I know this is probably a very stupid question but please don't beat me up too badly :) C PS I am shutting down so I can move it to my desk and hook up the NIC's hehe I guess I probably should have done this first:( C