Greetings - I just unpacked a dual opteron storage server with a 3ware 7000-series RAID controller and two sets of three SATA drives. SuSE 9 is installed on /dev/sda2, a 500GB file system. The technicians at Monarch computers adviced me to install the OS on a different drive. (One problem they had is that 3ware hasn't released a controller card driver for SuSE 9 yet.) I've added an IDE drive for this purpose, to free up the RAID 5 drives for storage. I'm new to this and have two questions. First, will I get a big performance hit on the OS by moving it from the SATA RAID drives to a single IDE drive? There is 2GB RAM. Second, can I install SuSE 9 from loop-mounted DVD disk images, or in some other way directly from hard drives within the existing installation? I don't have a floppy or CD/DVD drive on this unit, though I could plug one in for this purpose. Cheers, David P.S. Minor issues in case someone has a quick answer: How can I boot directly into a text console and not into SuSE's graphics console (I set it to boot to run level 3)? How can I increase the font size at boot? Finally, the kernel isn't supporting my flat screen display -- the text is squashed and unreadable. An old CRT works. (VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27))