How not to do it! I wanted to add a second 2GB disk to my susebox and followed the instructions on pages 449/450 of the manual. All went well as far as item 5 [twice :-( ] The first two attempts provided me with a read-only /OPT folder which meant that LINUX would not boot/start all processes AND I could not edit /etc/fstab ! - That is to say that I could not save any changes made in vi. (would it have been possible to change the file attributes manually?) On the second re-build (getting good at it now!) I spotted the problem, the attributes in /etc/fstab shown in the book were different to mine! Mine look like this - I assume that anyone using YaST2 to install would have a similar table. /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /opt ext2 defaults 1 1 I copied the attributes of the /boot partion, as per the manual. Anyway it works very well now :-) Can you offer any explanation/advice please Roger? Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk admin@sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries