I partitioned my 13 Gig hd using Partition Magic 4.0 and installed my 3rd SuSe linux, 6.3 using yast1. SuSe is by far the best distribution. I have only a few questions: 1. I get this message when I use fdisk: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1653. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) /dev/hda2 is my /boot and it is below the 1024 boundary so I don't think I have a problem. ================================================= 2. as shown below, /dev/hda4 is a Win95 Ext'd (LBA) I installed SuSe with no problems. Being a Win95 extended partition, could this cause a problem and should I change it to a linux extended using linux fdisk. I read in this group that you should't mix PM and fdisk. This is my partition table: Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 230 1847443+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 231 243 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 244 1653 11325825 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 244 260 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 261 515 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda7 516 778 2112516 83 Linux /dev/hda8 779 1033 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda9 1034 1288 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda10 1289 1479 1534176 83 Linux /dev/hda11 1480 1653 1397623+ 83 Linux ======================================================== jozien Have a lot of fun!!! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/