How do I tell Eclipse where to put my "workspace"

I've recently started to try and use Eclipse again, this time because of the bold claims for its integration with CVS, which I find very fiddly to use on its own. But I'm baffled again.
Here's my situation. I want to download the sources of a sourceforge project so I can look at them and contribute. the Eclipse help (such as it is) suggests creating a new CVS reference, then clicking "download as project" (or something, I don't have the exact text here).
If I were doing this by hand I would create a directory, cd into it, then get the sources. However, Eclipse seems to insist on creating a subdirectory inside the Eclipse installation tree (.../eclipse/workspace/projectname/...) which is not where I want to put it.
Does anyone have any suggestions how to tell Eclipse to create the new project somewhere else?
Thanks.

You can choose "checkout as...", which will give you a dialog where you can change the default location.
You can also move the project to a different directory later on by choosing "Move..." (Navigator) or "Refactor/Move..." (Package Explorer) from the context menu of the project.
Hope this helps!

Thanks. That worked (eventually)
Is anyone else using Eclipse to download project source from sourceforge? I find it's very flaky and keeps giving me no connection and connection reset by peer errors if the server doesn't reply immediately.

I didn't have any problems connecting to source forge yet. And I am using Eclipse for over a year this way...

Strange. I'll try and find out more about when exactly it does it. Might be something local.

Frank, I just saw that when you start eclipse you can specify the workspace with the -data option. I moved the workspace directory out of the eclipse tree and modified the shortcut accordingly. Works OK even with CVS as far as I can see.
[ April 06, 2003: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]

Thanks Barry. I wasn't aware of that, but I've taken to just overriding each project directory when I create it. Seems to work OK for me so far.
My setup is complicated a little as I have the "master" current version of all my woking projects on removable media (one of those little USB keyfobs), and slightly differently-configured versions of Eclipse (or no Eclipse at all, in some cases) on the various machines I edit/test on.
The wierd bit is that only one of the machines has access to CVS, so I refresh and resynchronize the project whenever I get back to that machine, but develop independently at the others.

As for the flaky CVS access, it seems that the problem occurs with "pserver" access but not with "extssh" access.
The problems I was getting, only happened when I was using "pserver" mode as recommended by sourceforge to download the source of a project I'm not a developer for. Working using "extssh" mode on my own projects has beed pretty smooth so far.

Originally posted by Frank Carver:
Thanks. That worked (eventually)
Is anyone else using Eclipse to download project source from sourceforge? I find it's very flaky and keeps giving me no connection and connection reset by peer errors if the server doesn't reply immediately.

Frank, if you look under the properties for CVS in your Eclipse setup, you'll find a timeout value for connecting to the CVS server -- it's set at 60 seconds, which can be too short for very hard-hit or flaky servers. I usually up it to 120 seconds.
Kyle

Ah. Thanks Kyle. I hadn't thought about looking for a config.