One of the things YaST does at startup is a "fdisk -l" to figure out the partition layout. On some machines, "fdisk -l" can hang sometimes if you have an EIDE CD-ROM drive and no CD in it. The problem normally is not reproducible. I suspect a kernel bug.
Thanks for this info. As a matter of fact when I do "ps", I sometimes see a "fdisk -l" entry with status job "D". Most of the time when I try to mount my zip disks, the process also hangs with status "D". I won't even get the prompt back. I am having these problems with my office machine which has two IDE hard disks. I have not had these problems yet with my computer at home (which has only one hard disk). Having said all these, is there a way to configure gateway and netmask addresses without using YaST. I think I might have entered wrong gateway address during installation. Thanks again, Ramin -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e