Okay, I've searched through the archives, but I haven't seen a solution to this. I've got the 5 CD images downloaded and burned successfully. I was able to use them to upgrade my home desktop box to 10.0 (a couple of small issues left in that upgrade, but I know the disks are good). Today, I'm trying upgrade my laptop (IBM Thinkpad 390X) but can't start the installation. The laptop system does support booting from the CD drive, and I was able to install the commercial SuSE 9.0 release on it that way, but being a CD recorder drive and using CD-Rs for the install media, it's not seeing disk 1 as bootable but as recordable. So, I thought I'd try building the boot floppies. The OpenSuSE documentation suggests using Slackware's smart boot disk. Trying that to boot the CD, the child boot hangs with "LI". When I run CD1:/boot/mkbootdisk from the existing system, I get the following error: error: /usr/bin/syslinux not found Please install package "syslinux" first. Since I'm running mkbootdisk from a SuSE 9.0 system, shouldn't syslinux already be there? I've tried mkbootdisk from the laptop and from my work desktop (also SuSE 9.0) but get the same error on both. Looking further, there is rawrite.exe on CD1 (and the laptop dual boots with 98), but no images to use it with. Is there another way to create boot disks that will work? -- Sean Lamb - sean@fullcompass.com "A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx