Hello List, Would someone please be kind enough to offer me a clue as to how to change the installation media? I recently updated from SuSE 7.3 to 8.0 by booting from CD1. My cdrom drive, which is also a CD-R/RW drive, is the slave device on the primary IDE controller. So, when SuSE boots from CD1, it finds itself on /dev/hdb and sets the location of the installation media accordingly. Since this cdrom drive is also a CD-R/RW drive, however, I have it set up to use ide-scsi after a normal boot. Once I have rebooted (and I needed to reboot after the install, because my monitor would only give me garbage and the message "INVALID SCAN FREQ" after the installer exited), it reverts to being an ide-scsi drive, and since it is not /dev/hdb anymore. Used to be, I could fix this with yast. Yast offered the possibility of setting the media location to /dev/sr0 or some other appropriate device. Yast2 on the other hand does not seem to be as clever as its older brother, and provides only an option for "CD Installation." When using the drive as /dev/sr0, yast2's "CD Installation" just tells me that it can't find the drive/device. Any thoughts on how to fix this, other than rebooting into a set up where the cdrom device is mounted on /dev/hdb? I could do that, but it would be annoying to have to reboot just to install or delete applications from the SuSE cdroms. The other thought I had was to make a boot floppy each time I update, and as the system boots, pass it the "hdb=ide-scsi" argument. Unfortunately, I am past the decision point where that could have worked this time. (I guess I should have known, though. I have had this problem every update since I started using CD-R/RW drive.) Cheers, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze tschulze@nuthole.de "[T]he key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values." -- Peter Drucker