Probably all you canny chaps out there know about these things, but I found them decidedly peculiar. 1. When the install froze, it had already reformatted both hard-disks. It left me, as reported, with a login screen I have never seen before and what I think must have been a German keyboard lay-out. After some fiddling, I discovered that it had somehow retained my old root login password - difficult to get it right on an unknown keyboard, but trial and error, plus a deep belief in the goodness of angels, got me there. How,and why did it do that? 2. When I got into the programme, it had set up a minimal system, which I was able to complete from the CD - although it still kept complaining about read errors. I was then able to install StarOffice 6.0. This time, the screen fonts are acceptable. Why would they not have been on the full install last time, and yet work on the wonky install this time? 3. When I log out of a KDE session, it returns me to that khaki coloured login again. If I log back in, I automatically find myself in KDE. At no time am I offered the choice of another window manager. How do I get the old KDE login back. 4.The version of Mozilla that has been installed from the SUSE CDs has no mail client. Is this normal? I don't miss it in the ordinary way, as I use another mail programme, but it means that there's no way of responding to web-page mailtos. Best wishes Timothy Mason