Hi, Some people in the past have been asking about how to have more control of the workflow and what is going on during manual and auto installations. Since 9.1, we have something new controling the whole installation phase. Some of you might have noticed a file named control.xml on the first CD. This file basically takes care of what dialogs should be shown and what the installation proposals should look like. It can either be customized for manual or automated installations. It also has some advanced features for manual installation which in most cases influence the initial installation proposal, i.e. partitioning and other global settings. Take a look at http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/control.pdf. (Work in progress) The syntax is similar to this used for autoinstallation. Warning: Any change in this file will change the standard installation and might have unwanted results. So you should know exactly what you are doing. Anas