You are missing the "create" tags. Download my examples from here: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ayex.tgz It contains a script "makePartition". Feed it with a fstab-like file like: /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 1gb /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 20gb /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults max and select "new", "hda" and tell it which partitions to format. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *