Well I've answered my own questions now on the subject and thought I might as well share the information with all. I changed the partitioning of the hard drive to 3 partitions, this is because I did get v2.1.1 of STN to configure and run so I no longer needed 2 play areas for STN, if I should need to play I guess I'll throw in the floppy. Partitioning is now: partition 1 32 MB Primary DOS partition for STN + System Commander partition 2 100 MB primary DOS partition for DRDOS & utilities / misc config drivers etc. partition 3 32 MB Unix type 83 partition for Linux, I have to have a /boot partition to handle booting my 13 GB IDE drive since LILO will not go above 8 GB. This was accomplished by running the OS wizard of System commander and deleting all but my 1st primary partition; then I resized the partition from 100 MB to 32 MB. I then created a new primary partition at the beginning of freespace and made it 100 MB in size. I then xcopied everything from C: to D: and sys'ed the D: drive. I then deleted a the old DOS install and other misc. files from C: and rebooted. When thing rebooted I had 2 selections on the screen C: or A: I chose C: and verified that things booted. Once verified I rebooted and sent into System Commander setup and hid each primary partition from each other, rebooted and then picked-up with the instructions in the FAQ except I did not format C: when the instructions were completed I rebooted and System Commander querried me if I had installed a new OS to which I answered yes and called it STN. violla !! I booted from the menu and all works perfect. Should I need to work on the STN partition all I need to do is boot do DOS, sys a floppy, boot from the floppy and I have a 32 MB drive of STN accessible, should make installing and working with STL ( share the log) pretty easy. Quite a length process it seems, but if you are like me and want something functional with minimal outside intervention, but what you really want to turn the old 486 into a Linux gateway and print & file server, but don't have all the time in the world to work out the kinks this should be a way to do things. While maintaining your sanity. Robert _______________________________________________ ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet
