Okay, I've tried to re-install Venus in the seagate drive which I had a running (fresh) install of Festen. And...it still does not work. At install time, after choosing "server" default install, it gives me this error: An error occurred while reading the partition table for the block device hda. The error was input/output error. [retry or skip drive] Incidentally, this input/output error was the same cascading errors I wrote about in the previous mail... Is there anymore information that would be useful? Thanks. -- ----------------------------------------- Kuraiken - Python fanatic. ----------------------------------------- Python. Try it. It'll swallow you whole! -----------------------------------------