http://www.linuxquestions.org – I bought the famous $298 eMachines laptop from Wal*Mart. I shrank the main partition (it has 2 'service' partitions as well) to 50 GB, leaving 150 for Linux, with SystemRescueDisk. I fdisked 2 extended Linux partitions, made ext3 filesystems on them, copied over the system files, but lilo refuses to work, complaining of a fatal raid_setup. (HowTos)