Opps, just to Rob. Here it is below. Rob - "boot the machine with the boot disk choose language etc.. yast2 comes up choose abort" No can do. Boot floppy loads initrd, then linux, in the process reports the following: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total looks for the hardware, then asks for the modules floppy. As soon as you select O.K. the install jumps to a teal colored box saying "loading data into ramdisk 2210 kB" and runs to 100% and then immediately jumps to a black screen with white cursor blinking in the upper left hand corner. That it, all locked up, or a least no further install runs. System is based around an Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W SCSI II controller; virtually everything in the system is scsi based so with no recognition of the controller I'm virtually dead, not true, I AM dead. I tried an install on my IDE system at work this morning and it ran smooth as silk, so the problem lies with the hardware I'm sure on this system. Now what? Dave