Hi It is extremely possible that many of the problems that I have reported having seen during installation, is caused by my stupidity. I have used non formatted disks when to create a new boot disk ( the old one ). My only defence is that I use to jump between Mdk and Debian, and in Debian they are used to fence in my type of stupidity. I have formatted some floppies and succesfully installed. Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010208 19:12 /ChangeLog/1.408/Wed Feb 7 17:35:17 2001// But the fine boot disk was not accepted, so I had to use my lines in /boot/grub and got in. Shall now try reiser. regards guran