I have an older system (Athlon 1.1GHz, a gig of memory, and somewhat newer IDE hard disks -- meaning that the hard disks are newer than the box). Also, the power supply is 450W and good quality. I'm not aware of any hardware problems... Software problems include having Windows XP as a dual boot option (that's a joke - Win XP boots and runs fine) via GRUB. For the whole time that I had SUSE 10.0, YaST (or whatever is behind that component) would lose my DVD drive as a software source. That is, it worked fine to initially install from DVD, it worked fine to burn CDs and DVDs, it worked fine to view and copy files on a data CD, and it worked fine to view movies (after I did the new xine and libdvdcss thing). But every second time that I wanted to add or fiddle with some software (from Packman and a couple of other reputable sources), the system would look for something on the DVD and be unable to find it - even though DVD1 was sitting in the drive and I could be looking at its contents in a Konqueror window. In the software source configuration dialog, the DVD drive was present, though it often got replaced by something like /media/DVD://// Every time I saw the four slashes, I knew I was doomed. So, after some months, I read something in an old thread from somewhere (not a SuSE list) that caused me to boot from DVD and perform Repair. Then, the next time I booted and tried a software change, the DVD was found without issue. But later, I'd try again, and the DVD would be unacceptable again. Back to boot from DVD and run Repair. Since I was not having other failures, I decided that, either I had a very specific hardware problem affecting only fstab, or else I had a software/config problem that was inadvertently _telling_ it to do this. When I installed 10.1, I formatted everything except the Win XP partition - so as not to have any lingering issues from my previous SUSE life on that machine. I did all new config, creating fresh users and not supplying any old config. Yes, I have had to Repair two times since installing 10.1. YaST decides not to see the DVD as software source anymore. Just like before. Aside from jokes about it being the Win XP partition, does anybody have any idea what would keep doing this? When the system runs its filesystem checks there's never any corruption mentioned. I figure that if the boot sector were corrupt/damaged, then I would have far more significant symptoms. What's left? Informed opinion welcomed. Speculation and wild-assed guesses welcomed. Thanks, Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com