I am trying to help a friend to install 8.1 on his computer - P2-400, 64MB RAM, 1.7Gig HD (set as /), 170MB HD (set as /swap), Matrox G2 video, standard mouse and keyboard. The CDROM is not bootable so we created boot floppies. We boot up the computer using the floppy disks, and all proceeds normally (either in GUI, or text based). The first GUI screen comes up and asks for language selection, and we select US English. Now things deviate from every other install I have done with these same SuSE8.1 master CDs. The Installation Settings screen comes up and under software it only says "Default system." The additional selections for Help & Support Docs, KDE, Office Apps, and Graphical Base System are missing. If we go into Software Selection, there is only one option "Default system" there. Minimum system and Minimum graphical system are missing. We can go into Detailed selection, but then the filter only gives us a list of applications... nothing is grouped. For example I cannot select "All of KDE" since the groups are missing. I can install KDE or Gnome manually by selecting each individual package (and manually resolving dependancies) though. If we follow the install through allowing it to just have Default install, we only get a command prompt when the install finishes - expected since the GUI bit is not installed. If we manually install each component of a GUI -say Gnome for example - we are able to configure it after the install (setting WINDOWMANGER etc) and bring up a GUI using startx. This teds to be very unreliable since I usually miss something with the manual package selection. I have tested the boot floppy install on a different computer (P3-600 laptop, 192MB RAM) and everything went normally. The only significant difference I can see, other than the slower processor is that there is only 64MB RAM. But, 64MB meets the minimum requirements to install with YaST. So... why would the installer be so completely different on this one machine? Any ideas or suggestions? Anyone else ran across an install that was missing things in the installer screens? C.