I'm a great fan of multi-partitioning, for many reasons, one of which is relevant to your question: with multi partitions, problems which don't ruin the whole drive can be analyzed /fixed/etc by working from a good partition. As for OSX=2, let's hope it doesn't need frequent reinstalls, that'd be the same as failure. On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Pat D. Stephens wrote: > I'm using my month old iBook just as it came to me without a > partitioned drive, but am warned that it is dangerous to do that since . . . k