the newer 3000's 5000's didn't have that problem. It was on the older mainboards mostly, my proliant 1500 I need to do that on.. having a serious problem installing off of floppies on that machine latly, ran suse 6.0 no problems for years but can't get 8.0 past the 2nd disk -----Original Message----- From: David Bottrill [mailto:david.bottrill@ntlworld.com] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:56 PM To: Suse E Subject: [Fwd: Re: [SLE] Linux Install on Conmpaq Proliant 5000 Server] Apologies to James I sent the reply directly to him, but it may be of interest to others Try using the LILO option mem=512M at the LILO prompt from the install CD, I have found that certainly on Proliant 2500's it fails to correctly ascertain the correct size and assumes you have only 16MB of RAM, I did get it to install but it was painful and took all day!!. With the --