[atafak]

Yes. He can pick up a Mandrake 8.1, ($29.95 for the three CD set) slap the #1 CD into his computer, answer a couple of quick questions, and he will be at their excellent disk partioning and formatting program. With it, he can quickly repartion/reformat the drive, and then cease the Mandrake install. Then, while MS is installing he can look over the Mandrake manual, and come to wonder why in the h*ll any sane person would use MS. He can then abort the MS installation, and install a real operating system instead.

[endZT]

hehe, I thought so. I haven't used Mandrake personally but I did work for Red Hat for a few years and I did install SuSE at one point.

I figured a Mandrake user would speak up if I was wrong :)

Win2k has its uses. I have one machine for Win2k/Win98 (for work/games) and one with RH 7.2 (like I said I worked for them and it is the one I'm most familiar with) for serious stuff.