I've just done an hd expert developer installation which went very smoothly until I rebooted. There were lots of error messages - I haven't followed them all up yet, so there'll probably be a follow-up mail. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "en_GB", LC_COLLATE = "en_GB", LC_TIME = "en_GB", LC_MESSAGES = "en_GB", LC_MONETARY = "en_GB", LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB", LANG = "en" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). The default kernel has no MS-DOS support, so I started by rebuilding the kernel. The locale warning appeared again but the kernel built OK (with MS-DOS support) - except it didn't, or wasn't - after running lilo and rebooting, still no MS-DOS support in this kernel. How can this be? KDE2 looks a bit better (I'd lost the icons but restored them following Chris' advice to run update-menu as root - I had to do rpm --rebuilddb first). No sound whatsoever. DrakConf complained about version of modutils, so I went to do the usual for my AWE64, that is sndconfig - guess what? no sndconfig. So I copied modules.conf and isapnp.conf from 7.2 (before kernel make dep), expecting sound after reboot - nada. I'll add some lines from /var/log/messages - perhaps that'll give someone a clue... Original kernel: Nov 17 12:57:33 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k vfat, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:57:33 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k eth0, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:57:33 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ppp0, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:55:22 penguin depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-25mdk/pcmcia/pcilynx_cb.o Nov 17 12:57:35 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k lockd, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:57:36 penguin keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded Nov 17 12:57:42 penguin netconf: /sbin/netconf: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-6, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin last message repeated 5 times Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin last message repeated 67 times Nov 17 12:57:45 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-180, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:57:56 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-10-175, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:59:04 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-0000, errno = 2 Nov 17 12:59:17 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-14, errno = 2 Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin modprobe: execvp: No such file or directory Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin sound: Unloading sound module (sb) failed Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin modprobe: execvp: No such file or directory Nov 17 14:40:50 penguin sound: Unloading midi module (awe_wave) failed Rebuilt kernel: Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: Board 1 has Identity d6 06 ea d5 ce c5 00 8c 0e: CTL00c5 Serial No 116053454 [checksum d6] Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: CTL00c5/116053454[0]{Audio }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: CTL00c5/116053454[1]{Game }: Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin isapnp: CTL00c5/116053454[2]{WaveTable }: Ports 0x620 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK Nov 17 14:45:42 penguin rc.sysinit: Setting up ISA PNP devices: succeeded Nov 17 14:45:46 penguin : Loading module: vfat Nov 17 14:45:47 penguin mount: mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel Nov 17 14:47:48 penguin sound: Loading sound module (sb) failed Nov 17 14:47:48 penguin modprobe: execvp: No such file or directory Nov 17 14:47:48 penguin sound: Loading midi module (awe_wave) failed Nov 17 14:48:02 penguin netconf: /sbin/netconf: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-6, errno = 2 Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4, errno = 2 Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-10-175, errno = 2 Nov 17 14:48:08 penguin kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-180, errno = 2 Sorry about the length. Hope someone can help? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 KDE 2.0 still not fit for production machines as of 17-Nov-00. Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 4 hours 30 minutes