Thanks mate - that makes things a bit better. I am following some notes on 'Installing Linux on a USB External Drive'. All is going well except the part where I have to create a home directory via Configure-Create a persistent home directory. It prompts me for the size but the I never get a success prompt. I am guessing that this is not working and there is some permission problems since other commands via the Konsole using 'su' was working fine. Can anyone help here please? Anyway to create the home directory via the Konsole commands. Also using Konqueror I cannot seem to create a text file on /dev/sda1 for some permission drama. Thanks.