Greetings. I'm painfully new to Linux, but pretty adept at Windows & DOS. I'm installing SuSE 8 on a new machine, where it will share an 80GB drive with Win2K. I've been reading this list, the SDB as well as the manuals, but still have some questions after doing the first install last night. FWIW, SuSE installed smooth & fast - not one glitch. However... now Win2K runs pathetically slow - it's unusable. Since the drive was already partitioned & Win2K installed, I had to resize one of the FAT32 partitions (logical) below the 1024 limit to accomodate /boot (the YaST recommended configuration didn't include a /boot). So I ended up with an ext2 /boot partition between C: (NTFS) and (now) E: (FAT32). Windows sees /boot as well as the other 2 Reiser partitions above E:. Is this ext2 partition between Windows partitions causing Win2K to have fits & run so slowly? Secondly, is it possible to "hide" any non-Windows partitions from 2K so they don't appear in Explorer (since Windows tries to read each of them everytime you enter Explorer or My Computer)? What do other dual-OS users do here? What's the recommended order of partitions? Put /boot at the start of the drive, so all Windows partitions will be continuous, followed by Linux partitions? I intend to have 3 Windows partitions, and probably /boot, /, and /home (reasons to have more?). One final question: I didn't get ANY LILO config screen during installation. When the system boots, I get a graphical screen to chose Linux, Windows and some other options. I haven't seen a screenshot for this view - is this the GUI for LILO? My problem with this is my USB keyboard doesn't function on this screen (it also flies by too fast, but I figure that's just a timeout setting). I have to wait for the SuSE login screen to be able to reboot to Windows. The text window in the corner of the login screen shows messages relating to 'AT keyboard' - probably not detected (it was late, I don't recall the exact messages), as I don't have one installed. My keyboard works at the login screen, as well as in BIOS. Is there an easy fix to get my USB keyboard to work earlier? Many thanks! mike