OK, I have been poking about on the web for some guidance on this. This is the scenario: I have a 386sx25 with 16MB RAM that I am installing Slackware on (I know, not SuSE, but I have tried without success all versions from 6.4 through 8.0. Slackware 8.0 includes option to install on 386 systems, and worked first try.) Anyway, the 500MB HD I currently have in the system is the limit of the BIOS. I have a 1.2Gig Quantum I want to install to give me a larger sandbox to play in. The problem is... how do I get around the BIOS issues? Do I need to? Back in the DOS days I would download OnTrack and use that to do the BIOS redirects to give me access to a drive larger than what the BIOS understands. In my research on this, so far, I have only turned up a lot of nothing. RedHat has some info on this in their FAQ that basically says don't ask them for help, install on a different drive. http://www.redhat.com/support/sla/SLAdescriptions.html#nooverlay I found this reference http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.0/doc/ide.txt.html and in the new features is mentions Dynamic Disk Overlays... not much info about the how, what, where though. Is it possible that since (as I understand it) Linux directly access the HD, the drive overlay thing is not an issue? (vs. the Windows -> BIOS -> HD way)??? C.