hi this is manoj i want help. i dont know how to partition the hard disk. when i ask it to keep existing partitions and install automatically. it is not installing. i got 10GB free space. is it enough to install the linux???? and please tell me how to manually select the partition. in this case how to allocate the required space for things like "/" , "/root" and all others. thanks®ards Manoj __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com