Thanks for the reply and apologies as I now have 2 active threads :( I don't get to the point where I can choose a partition. I have tried the following:
Using PM8 - created a 10GB Linux drive ext3 and a 500MB linux swap drive.
Also tried with just empty space.
The setup starts and I choose keyboard and also agree to the license, and the security options. Then I get a message saying:
"I can;t read the partition table of device hde, it's too corrupt". It then tells me that it can go on and erase over bad partitions and in which case, all data will be lost - "error is unkown partition table on disk /dev/hde" Do you agree to lose all the partitions?" so I choose "No" -then there is disk activity for a few minutes and then I get another error message:
"I can't read the partition table of device hdg and some of the above text and "error is bad magic number on disk hdg" do you agree to lose all the partitions?" I select no and there is more disk activity - I am then presented with a final error telling me that there is no room to install.
So I'm pretty stumped - if I clicked yes to any of these messages I suppose I would lose my other partitions?
Steve.