Spent a considerable amount of time playing with SuSE for the past 9 days but to no avail. In general, I start the install with CD#2 ( CD # 1 simply goes to the text line about searching for installed hardware and then jumps the the left side of the screen on the next line and just blinks forever ) , then use the modules floppy which runs linuxrc up to the point of the kernel modules window and then from there says "error reading disk" no matter what I select. Can't even back out from this point and have to shut down the machine. On occasion the install jumps directly to the "loading data into ramdisk 2210 kB ..." screen which completes then jumps to a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. At one point, and only once, the install made it to the linuxrc screen portion asking for info about the scsi controller. When I tried at this point to load the appropriate drivers the controller options asked for the parameters for the aic7xxx.c device. I have no idea what to put there so I hit return and got a text screen with a further load process eventually hanging with the following repeated continuously until I rebooted: "aborting command due to timeout: pid4, scsi0, channel 0, id4, lun0, test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00" I got this far only once and can't get there again. During the boot process the system provides this info: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total I'm running a Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W based system but I thought that this card series was / is supported. My current (windows-based) system is running on the first hard drive, an IBM SCSI II 8.754 Gig, and my second drive ( for Linux) is an IBM SCSI III 17.5 Gig partitioned as 259 meg swap, 118 meg root, and the remainder for now just an extended partition. I'm out of ideas at this point. Even if this install had run, it was listed as a 2.2.18 kernel install which is not the version I want. I want to install the 2.4 kernel. Thoughts anyone? dave