hi paul thankyou for the prompt response and yes i got my linux mail client setup now sorry about the blue background before but you guessed it i am a sad windows user as well. anyway onto the problem i have again. >When you did the install, were the drives connected and if they were, >did you let the installer do the partitioning? If you did, it's quite >likely that the other two drives will be getting used somewhere. Have a >look in /etc/fstab for entries marked /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1. These are >the names given to the drives. The DVD will be something like /dev/hde >(you will see it in /etc/fstab). yes when i installed fedora the drives were all attached and i did let the installer do all the work i have had a look in /etc/fstab and this is what i see LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 hope that helps on that piece and also this is what i see in hardware browser Device Start End Size (MB) Type /dev/hda hda1 1 203 100 ext3 hda2 204 36712 17969 ext3 hda3 36713 38792 1024 linux-swap /dev/hdb 1 19386 9542 free space /dev/hdc 1 19386 9542 free space again hope this helps and thankyou for the response so far karl filby
