I am happy to say that I really like Mandrake 7.1. Finally it has the support for my video card "voodoo 3000", and some of my usb devices =). I only have one problem. I can't get to my windows 2000 partition anymore. When the boot loader install came up, I sat there for about 5 minutes thinking about, should I make life easy and boot from a disk or try a boot loader. Well I went with GRUB, and setup an extra option to boot from my NTFS partition which is /hda1. GRUB comes up fine, but when I choose the 2000 partition is bombs out with an error. I know the error is important to know, but I can't remember exactly what it is. My first question is can I bootup with the 2000 boot disks and fdisk /mbr and remove the bootloader. I wasn't sure because it's a NTFS partition and not fat. Is lilo or Grub compat with a NTFS partition? did I mention I love this mailing list =) Alan