Well thanks to all I got my system working fine with Win2K and Linux. I did cheat at the end and use a third party boot manager, found both OS's fine and works super. Now a related question. Here's how a formatted using FDISK 1 primary DOS 200M Extended using rest of drive about 25G 1 logical 5G NTFS Win2K not intended to be seen or used by Linux 1 logical 7G Linux partition not used by Windows, in it: swap partition / partition /root partition 1 logical 300M FAT16 partition used for downloads 1 logical 5G FAT32 partition Linux at boot reports hda= hda1, hda2, (hda6 hda7 hda8) hda9 hda10 hda11. I think hda9 is my 300M fat16 partition. Is there any way I can access the files from that partition? I'd like to if needed download when in windows and then get the files from Linux. When I mount hda9 and get 'ls' it shows files but then next to every entry says something like "no such file or directory" Also when I installed Linux I tried first to select partitions that were not adjacent to each other. I was not allowed to do that. Is that correct all partitions that Linux uses have to be adjacent? Or was that just for install? Can I add the fat16 hda9 into my fstab? I hope that's all, thanks -JD- John W Denning A+ ( ( ( ) ) ) jdenning@pobox.com Salt Lake City, UT ) ) )( ( ( (801)322-2056 JD's UnderWater Photo Course - http://www.pobox.com/~jdenning/uwpc.html -- 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/