My new amazing machine w/ x86_64 FC3 Fedora installed from the factory. I have been wrestling with that beast with a shabby connection at school, and finally decided to install ubuntu breezy live preview so I can get something done. The factory had installed w/ LVM, one Volume Group subsumes two hdd. I thought I'd try to play with LVM and shrink it, so I can make a partition to install UBUNTU into. I know I was in over my head, but I have to say, Ubuntu allowed me to exercise my freedom, and trash the whole LVM setup. Which is cool, I guess, and I know I deserved it. Now I have found a WWW page that suggests using qtparted from Knoppix to partition before installing Ubuntu. Is anybody listening? Would that have made a difference? Alan