I thought that I shall share my experience of installing SuSE6.3 (CHIP APR 2000 CD). I was having a system PII 266, 64MB RAM, 4.3 HDD, CLxx65 card and Samtron5Ei. I had hda1 c: and hda5 d: drives of win98. hda7 / , hda6 /boot/ and hda8 swap. I purchased a HDD of 8.4GB and made two partitions first 3gb as ext e:drive and another 2gb as linux partition. first one with dos fdisk and second with linux fdisk. Now I started installing SuSE6.3. First problem. after selection of language, kb and time zone with next screen started hanging. However in support db, earlier I have read text installation is possible by pressing ctrl+A while it shows boot (with in 3 secs). I tried that. Now I could continue install. Now comes the second problem. I tried to install in linux partition of 2nd HDD. Though I had 2gb and minimum install requires much less, I got msg saying the space is not sufficient. Then I tried to install on dos partition. Now it went ok further until X came. Now comes the third problem. I have intellimouse in serial. But it was recognized as PS/2. Hence SAX or XF86Setup was not of use. First i configured mouse using yast and X with xf86config. Now I booted to rh and made a dirs. for /suseroot and /suseboot and mounted them. my RH lilo.conf is as follows. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b password=xxxxxxx # password is masked. use your own prompt timeout=50 default=win image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 label=rh initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img read-only root=/dev/hda7 image=/suseboot/vmlinuz.suse label=suse # initrd=/suseboot/initrd-2.2.13.img read-only root=/dev/hdb7 other=/dev/hda1 label=win and did /sbin/lilo -v. Now I can boot to win98, rh and suse from lilo. -- L.V.Gandhi MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi lvgandhi@poboxes.com, lvgandhi@vsnl.com, 31882656@pager.mirabilis.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/