John Doe wrote: > And I guess you will have 1 try only... if it fails somewhere in > the middle of the install, you won't have a 2nd chance Thanks for your suggestion, which I think is more or less the advice in <http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-steps-hd-installs- x86.html>, mentioned in another post. I'll be installing CentOS-6 in a new partition, so failure won't be very serious. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland