i am a newbie too but it is a good idea to defrag your hard drive before using fips i have recently read a couple of stories in a magazine that if you dont it can write over some existing data on the drive which could be critical if that data is important to you.

anyway the post was a good read i have just installed redhat 6.0 along side win 2000 and i have a internal modem so i have just found out that most linux operating systems dont like internal modems if you have any ideas pm me