I'm failing miserably at installing SLES9 on a pile of Dell SC1425s. I have no idea why. I'm booting with verbose=1 and loghost=my.loghost .. The messages I'm seeing when the install fails are "An error occured during installation". The only information being sent to my loghost is : Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [YCP] StorageDevices.ycp:243 before .probe.floppy Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [YCP] StorageDevices.ycp:245 after .probe.floppy Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [YCP] StorageDevices.ycp:267 FloppyDrives [] Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [ui-ncurses] YNCursesUI.cc(YNCursesUI):114 Stop YNCursesUI Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [ui-ncurses] NCurses.cc(NCurses):160 Shutdown NCurses... Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [ui-ncurses] NCurses.cc(NCurses):169 NCurses down Aug 23 16:22:35 newhost yast2[1860]: <1> [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):437 Finished YaST2 component 'y2base' The problem has been compounded by the complete worthlessness of Dell's BMC and their broken serial port.