Hi, I've been having some problems installing SuSE 7.1 and i was wondering if anyone here could help me... I'm installing from CD having booted from floppy. The installation process runs fine until i get to the partitioning section. My machine has the following partitions: 5GB linux (redhat) 512mb linux swap 2G NTFS (win2k pro) 3GB FAT32 Disk geometry (as reported by BIOS and linux fdisk - C 1401 H 255 S 63). The disk is a 11GB IDE Maxtor. I want to keep the same partition structure but replace the old linux distro (redhat 6.0.1) with SuSE 7.1 and dual boot with win2k. However, the partitioning program in the SuSE installer doesn't recognise *any* of these partitions. It simply behaves as if the disk were completely empty. This occurs in both normal and expert mode. If i try to create partitions anyway, it allows me to proceed but when i come to format and copy files to these new partitions i get error messages about invalid partitions. At this point i booted the rescue system from the CD. When i ran fdisk from the shell i got the following message: "Warning: too many partitions (16, max is 8)" and when i displayed the partition table i got a list of 8 partitions labeled "a" to "h" with various junk parameters and a file system type of "4.2BSD". If i try to delete any of these partitions fdisk segfaults. If i try to create a new partition fdisk segfaults. If i try to verify the partition fdisk segfaults. If i try to create a new DOS partition table it has no effect. I've tried running fdisk-q instead. Same result. I've tried running the old fdisk from the redhat install - this works fine. I deleted everything and set up the partitions from scratch using this fdisk, booted up the SuSE installer and got the same problem. I tried a copy of cfdisk from Debian 2.2 - this works fine, but the SuSE fdisk still fails in the same way. I've tried totally scrubbing the disk (using DOS fdisk create a new FAT32 partition over whole disk, reformat, delete partition table) and i still get the same result. Redhat and Win2k both work fine but the SuSE fdisk program seems to have a real problem with my hardware. Has anyone here encountered anything like this, and/or has any suggestions? (I've tried using Partition Magic 4.0 - that didn't work either...) TIA, Jon -------------------------------------- FREE ANONYMOUS EMAIL! Sign up now. http://www.subdimension.com/freemail