I managed to get a fresh install using my cds that were copied to the hard drive, but now every time I try to install another package I get the error the files are older than my installed system and aborts. This is extremely frustrating, why did they remove YaST1 that worked? I also have some .rpm files that I want to install and can't get the new YaST to look at the directories with the downloaded files, does this mean I have to manually install every new rpm I download? Why did they remove YaST1 that worked? If anyone can tell me how to get the new YaST to install a file from a directory, please let me know. thanks in advance joe PS: I think not including the orginal YaST was a serious mistake, I can no longer recommend SuSE to anyone, this is a disaster.