I have tried this at home and it worked, but for some reasons I was not able to make it to work in my office. My home machine is a Compaq desktop and the machine at work is Dell PowerEdge 1650. I downloaded the grub floppy from http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/ and updated menu.lst to use the following. It works like a charm at home. title autoinstall-ip ifconfig --address=172.20.212.51 --server=172.20.212.41 --mask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.20.212.1 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE autoyast=nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE/profiles/autoinst.xml ip=172.20.212.51 netmask=255.255.255.0 initrd (nd)/initrd title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 However, I updated the IP and use the **same floppy** to test a PowerEdge server at work, it hangs on kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE autoyast=nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE/profiles/autoinst.xml ip=172.20.212.51 netmask=255.255.255.0 Basically after I picked autoinstall-ip from the grub menu, the messages from the console are Booting autoinst-ip ifconfig --address=172.20.212.51 --server=172.20.212.41 --mask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.20.212.1 Probing ..[RTL8139]... The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device Updating PCI command 0000->0005. PC_bus 00 pci_device_fn 00 ioaddr 0x0000, addr 00:00:00:00:00:FF 10mbs full-deplex Filesystem is tftp, using whole disk root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE autoyast=nfs://172.20.212.41/usr/local/SuSE/profiles/autoinst.xml ip=172.20.212.51 netmask=255.255.255.0 Then it just hangs.... I was not sure whether it was related to the PC BIOS has not been enabled, even I think the version under http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/ may already have those options enabled, but I downloaded grub and recompiled with the options --enable-diskless and --enable-rtl8139 and still have the same problem. Have anyone seen this before? and I appreciate any suggestion in fixing the problem. Thanks anna --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th