Hi folks, I thought I'd ask for suggestions / comments about my recent experiments. I implemented an installation server for my organization using an SLES9 box (with SLES9 as the target installation). The server is up and running using HTTP (which works great), but I tried all other sources first and I had these problems... 1. I was unable to get FTP to work as an installation source. Target machines got a red box in yast complaining about "passive mode." I'm sure this is my ignorance in FTP, but I did try a few things and was unable to get it to work. Any thoughts? 2. I was unable to use TFTP as a source. I think this is actual limitations on the TFTP protocol, but I'm not positive. 3. NFS worked, *but* performance was abysmal. I did the testing on a private network, and I find that the apache2 server install is *very* fast on that configuration, but NFS is surprisingly slow -- slower (I think) than CD-ROM. Any thoughts? Best wishes. -- Charlie ----- A. Charles Suffin Senior Software Engineer Stratus Technologies, Inc. 111 Powdermill Road Maynard, MA 01754-3409 US (978)461-7590