Lonnie Sauter wrote: > > check out mkfs(8) man page... > > Lon > On this advice i managed to get the partition formated WHEW. I needed the package "dosfstools" and used the command "mkfs -t msdos /dev/sda1" formated the partition just fine and i have all 10M available. Thank you for your help ps was it a mistake to use unstable (potatoe?) as my first attempt at an alpha install?? Jeff