begin Mike Grello's quote: | Here is a tip for SuSE (and increasingly most Linux distros), if I | wanted Windows I would've bought Windows. If you are going to | treat the user like an idiot, then (s)he should not have to have | some smarts to fix what you broke. life can be made easier in situations such as this by hopping into the runlevel editor (or editing /etc/inittab in some other way) and switching off hardware detection. i switched off hotplugging at the same time; in the event either of those is needed, they can always be turned back on, and in the meantime every boot is faster and the system is freed of the obligation to do you favors you don't want done. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.