Hello all: I am knee deep in trying to slavage some 486 machines after laying my head on the line that I can get them a new lease of life with Linux. I have been running Linux on my home machine for nearly 2 years now without a hitch but sods law, when I work on another machine it turns into a lead balloon. I have managed to "install" a version of Linux (I am using a Red Hat one for now as it claims to be fine on 386 +s) on a dx2/66 with 16MB ram and a 540 HD. It works fine until I begin the ext2 formating (after making a 40MB swap file). It begins to format the hda1 partition and then an error appears in the blue screen saying that it has recieved either error 5, 9, or 11 (on suucessive tries) and then says that it is safe to reboot. I've not got beyond this message. Any suggestions? My SuSE is at home (I'm at school) but I believe it needs 32MB minimum? Paul Taylor Westwood St. Thomas School, Salisbury ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/