It is well known that the Einstein equation on a Riemannian flag manifold (G/K, g) reduces to a algebraic system, if g is a G-invariant metric. In this paper we described this system for all flag manifolds of a classical Lie group. We also determined the number of isotropy summands for all of these spaces and proved certain properties of the set of t-roots for flag manifolds of type Bn, Cn and Dn.