Before you do that, check out a PMI (poor man's install). If you are really new to linux, chances are that you will find a true hd install to be very frustrating (even experienced linux users have problems more often than not). Hopefully the documentation wiki will be running soon. But, for pete's sake, don't just blindly jump into a full-on install as a noob, based upon reading the install command. Save yourself some real aggravation and read up on it first. Again, I recommend a PMI.

jd