Okay, I can't seem to find anything current on this for the current kernel release. I'm trying to build a machine, with a number of drives: 2800MB IDE's, and 3 200MB SCSI's. I have the following partitions and sizes: /dev/hda1 / 275MB /dev/hda2 /usr 525MB /dev/hdb1 /var 275MB /dev/hdb2 /tmp 275MB (not swap space, as swap is on another drive than this) /dev/hdb3 /files 250MB (future NFS directory) One of the 200MB scsi drives are partitioned for swap space (64MB) and the other is for /home which takes up the rest of the drive. The other two are full partitions and will be used for misc. directories of data storage. When loading Slack 8, I get the a point in the install and I receive an error. IO/xx or something. Typically I've gotten this when my partitions are too small. Which I'm assuming is the case now. This box is going to be my gateway/firewall on a dial-up connection and will be moved over whenever cable becomes available. I'm not running X, so the install should be smaller. So, here's the question: With not running X, what are my partitions sizes supposed to be? I have an older System book which is based off of RedHat, but that is for the old 2.2 kernel and RH 6.1 I think but the partitions seem to be too small now. Any help? Shawn