Hi, I installed the Oxygen-2 ISO a couple days ago on my g/f's computer in place of Debian (2.1) this is how it has gone: The initial from-cd installation went fine. Chose "developer system", no X at startup, and X resolution 800x600x16bpp. Hardware is: S3 Trio3d Asus P5A AMD K6 Creative Labs Ensoniq AudioPCI Hauppauge WinTV 401 HP 500C inkjet printer Buslogic (/Mylex) Multimaster (BT-958) U/W SCSI Plextor 40x CD-ROM Yamaha 4416S CD-RW Tatung 17" monitor Day 1: On the first boot, I booted w/ the Linux entry, logged in as root, and started kdm, which produced foul output. Second boot, tried running XFdrake. Chose S3Trio 3d and Non-Interlaced SVGA (like Debian with my manually-installed XF86_SVGA binary from xfree86 3.3.5). Console freeze. Third boot, tried hitting enter at LILO to run Linux FB. This runs kdm ok. Intermission: Sleep. Work. Day Two: During the intermission, g/f booting Windows via LILO, which failed (just hung). I checked /etc/lilo.conf and noticed that there is a device swap of 0x80 -> 0x81 in the windows entry. Comment out that part, rerun LILO, and Windows boots and runs again. Once in KDE, I noticed that the desktop link to KPPP is broken. It started OK from the start menu, though. Tried establishing a dialup connection to ASU (her college) via PPP. Chose CHAP as the authentication method (I chose wrong actually wrong - it should be PAP), and "pppd died unexpectedly". Tried editing the PPP connection because this particular PPP server requires both console and pap login. How to do this with kppp isn't readily apparent. Tried viewing PPP help (by accessing the Help pulldown from the main PPP window) with the kppp connection editor open, but apparently it doesn't want to work like that. Went to close the excess kppp windows, and for some reason, X hung. No dice w/ ctrl-alt-backspace (didn't try alt-sysrq - is it compiled in there?) Tried to get to the bottom of the X deal. I get the impression that linuxfb is not compatible with native video access. Booting to "linux" running XFdrake repeatedly with different options, resulting in hangs both times. Boot, decide to rtfm some and get ppp working "the old fashioned way". Set up ppp by creating an /etc/ppp/peers/asu file, w/ /etc/chatscripts/asu chat script. Test it with pppd call asu. Success. So, I slap together pon and poff scripts to mimic the way Debian was set up and reduce typing. Then, get into X, click the doc link on the desktop to get the Mandrake docs. Only the TOC page shows up. All of the chapter links are dead. I try running the Mandrake Update app using the Linuxberg mirror, which doesn't find any updates. Since time is limited and local docs are borken, I can't find out how exactly Mandrake Update works to see if I should configure it somewhere to request updates to the oxygen-2 branch. I don't see any Oxygen docs online, and searching the cooker archives doesn't yield any information on the framebuffer stuff. Can someone fill me in? Also, how does the update program work? Can it a) be run from console b) upgrade between versions (eg., 7.1 -> 7.2) c) be configured like Debian's apt-get to choose whether to track updates to the stable release or updates to an unstable release? -pete