> the XP install then select half you drive for a NTFS partition, leaving > the other half unformatted space for Linux... no PartitionMagic required. Yes it will wipe the lot - his laptop Restore disk will just put XP on whole disk - it doesn't offer option to make partitions > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586 Thanks.