Hi everyone, Well I'm all ready to install red hat, I read the fips readme and did a full optimisation using win95 norton speeddisk and booted from a dos floppy with fips on it, just like the readme said. Well it complained that the last cylinder on my 2gb hd wasn't free. I deleted image.idx and did a full optimisation again and still the same. Whenever norton finishes optimisation, every square in the didk picture is coloured apart from the last (going along and down from the top) so it seems that the last cylinder is still used. Dows anyone know how I can free up the last cylinder, so I can go ahead and repartition? Also, is there a big risk of everything on my 2gb hard disk being lost? I would be so grateful for any help, I'm itching to start using linux and leave windoze behind ;-) Cheers, Dom -- Dominic McDonald-Aveyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 14555243 Our wedding album: http://www.sexgoddessjewel.com/HeatherAndDom/ Sex Goddess Jewellery http://www.sexgoddessjewel.com +Fine Silver Celtic knotwork and custom jewellery of all varieties.+