In choosing to (keep) a previously formatted root partition (albeit an empty one) the installation procedure tells me that not enough space exists on the target partition to install the selected packages? I selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is 3000MB in size? %smirk on. Is my math faulty? %smirk off. cheers, Prowel __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com