Yes, you should have a separate partition for Debian. But, with the low cost of drives it is more economic to install another drive rather than waste your time dividing up the one you have. Maybe you already have a smaller drive laying about (2GB is nice) that has nothing to do anyway. Yes, Debian can read Win2k formatted NTFS partitions just fine. WinNT crashes sometimes. Win2k doesn't. Don't go back to NT. Robin