Hi, I am trying to use SUSE 9.1 on a brand new Dell GX270 computer; short summary, there are all sorts of weird issues. Maybe someone here has seen anything like it? - I cannot get the graphical installation mode (autoinstall?) to work. I do get the (grub?) boot menu on the DVD all right. After choosing "installation" in any incarnation, the kernel is loaded all right (I suppose), but switching to X (?) appears to fail. Anyway, I get a blue screen with no text except for an "OK" request - only that none of the keys on the keyboard except the F1, F9, F10 and ESC keys work,, ah yes, and no mouse ... i.e. it is impossible to configure anything at all. - Space oddity - I did get the graphical installation mode exactly once, and never again (yes, there are only three switches to try in grub, on one and the same DVD and the same computer ... this is not reproducible). The graphics was dreadful, but it found the mouse and keyboard all right, and I could set up some things ... except then one partition (and only one ... hda6) could not be formatted (reiser) with no understandable error message. This leaves me somewhat stumped. (a) How could I get back to the graphical installation mode, which seemed to detect my (USB) Mouse and (PS/2) keyboard all right? (b) Once I get there - in what way could I get a useful error message out of the system so as to know what went wrong with formatting that one partition - is the disk bad, is it some minor corrigible error, should I use a different file system? (c) Finally, maybe this all is a kernel problem together with my newish hardware ... is autoyast based on 2.6 or 2.4? This is approximately the 10th SUSE Linux version (since 5.2?) which I have installed sometime, somewhere ... and this time I am really unsure what to do - downgrade to 9.0? Thanks VB