Your problem appears to be a bootloading problem. Have you ever had some other linux distro running on this computer? Try some other distro that you can install quickly before trying the distro that takes forever and a day to install. Don't distro's offer to make a boot diskette on install? Make one! Install a minimum set first, no sense loading 5G of software to find that your 800KB kernel and bootloader doesn't work. Or, troubleshoot what the bootloading problem is. Is your kernel loading? No? Why not? Got any spare paritions to play with? Install alternative distro's/kernels? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list