Hello again, A patern of my questions is emerging. Knoppix 'recognises' all my hardware and actually I am growing fond of it, but I cannot use multiple partitions on my hdd as I would like to. Can anyone tell me when the new debian installer will be in use so that detecting and installing hardware will berelatively painless so I can revert back to debian? Thanks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk> University of Manchester