O.k. Harry

Actually, the guy didnt charge me anything. It was an old machine and I got it for a bargain for almost nothing.

The C drive holds Win98 and there is about 2.7G of free space on that drive.

So what you're actually saying is that I should partition the 'C' drive before I boot the Debian CD? I read the FIPs link you provided, would it works for the Debian installer? Say I use FIPs as described in the Red Hat installation doc, partition C by resizing the drive, rebooting and then boot from Debian CD?