Schumacher, Paul wrote: > Should I remove the second "empty" partition? I'm not sure exactly what you are doing, but if you want to install Linux on a partition, it should be of type Linux (hex code 83) not NTFS, as you had. [You can change it with fdisk.] I imagine if the Linux installer sees a partition of type NTFS it assumes (reasonably enough) that the partition contains valuable Windows data, and leaves it undisturbed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
