Aloha all, Well, I succesfully loaded Red Hat 6.1 on my Toshiba Laptop. I am thinking 7.3 will be even better. As to the XP machine. I am gonna take SC7 off and just use the NT Loader. Does linux have an 8 Gig problem, btw? I noted it was at the 10 gig spot on the part. Thanks for all the advice. You guys are great. Edward