Updates on the situation I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery ThinkVantage tool, or anything that says create recovery media at all.
I went ahead and installed Debian anyway, using the netinstall CD, and the install process went fine (no error messages that I could see). However, xorg fails to start upon reboot. The xorg.conf is currently using the nv driver. In the end of log are the following lines: (EE) No Devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found My graphics card is an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M, but lspci shows it as: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0429 Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance, Jimmy -- Registered Linux User #454138 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

