I am attempting to install SuSE 7.3, and am having the following difficulty:-- 1. My CPU is an Intel Pentium 4. SuSE's standard bootdisk for installing v7.3 continues to suffer from the architecture-reporting problem -- previously affecting v7.0 -- which is described at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/kernel/pentium4/README . The problem is that (quote) 'the Linux kernel [on the bootdisk] reports this architecture [i.e. the Pentium-4 architecture] as "i?86", which is an unknown architecture for RPM and it therefore fails to install the packages'. 2. For this reason, I have only been able to install the SuSE system by using a bootdisk created (with rawrite.exe) from the online image ftp://ftp. ... [etc (as above)] ... /7.0/kernel/pentium4/p4-bootdisk -- which is an adjusted version of the image for the kernel required by SuSE Linux VERSION 7.0. This adjusted image was created and published by SuSE specifically for the purpose of solving the above problem concerning installation on Pentium-4 machines. Unfortunately, though, there doesn't seem to be any adjusted kernel for VERSION 7.3 currently available (for Pentium-4 users) from the SuSE site. 3. It seems, moreover, that version 7.3 cannot be installed PROPERLY with the currently-available Pentium-4 bootdisk for v7.0 (see para. 2 above). By this I mean that it CAN be INSTALLED -- and I have, in fact, installed it -- but that the resulting installation is DEFECTIVE in various annoying respects. E.g.:-- -- Subsequent attempts to update or install software forming part of the version-7.3 CD package are hampered/frustrated by the fact that the SuSE version number recorded to the hard disk via the bootdisk (during the installation procedure) differs from the version number on the CD actually inserted (for subsequent update/installation purposes) into the CD drive. -- Various files and directories required by version 7.3 are either installed in wrong places or not installed at all. An example is /usr/share/doc/susehilf/var/pac_en/KDE/index.html -- which is reported as non-existent every time I try to find any info via the SuSE Helpcenter (in KDE). [In fact, I keep getting the message that the Helpcenter "could not even open english.pkd (as fallback) at ./pacsearch.pl line 76"] 4. Please note that the following have not helped in any way:-- -- Inserting the line "arch-compat: i?86: i686" in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc -- Manually creating a directory /mnt/usr/lib/rpm [There is no such directory by default after my installation of v7.3] and then placing inside it a newly-created text file rpmrc containing the single line "arch_compat [etc (as above)]" I assume that these and similar problems affect all Pentium-4 users attempting to install version 7.3 (?). If anyone here knows of any specific example of a SUCCESSFUL installation of the 7.3 default system (with or without office or other software) on a Pentium-4 PC, please could you let me know how it was done? Otherwise, can you please make any suggestion(s)/comment(s) which you think might be suitably informative and/or useful. Unfortunately, I am quite new to Linux and am not yet in a position to be able to edit or compile a Linux kernel -- so if that is what is required then I would appreciate any links to sites which explain (for the benefit of newbies) how to do so. This is a very frustrating situation :-( Michael Alachouzos