Thanks one and all - I took the LILO option as a first call (coz it was free!) - and it worked a treat. Here I am now replying to you from my Win98 partition.

I just need to get a bit more into Linux now and I may soon be replying from that partition - I suspect that it may be difficult to get Linux talking through my W2K ICS gateway though:-(

Cheers

Dave the Gnome (which now has a whole new meaning because of Linux!)