Nowhere to go as to the list. But after the install stopped and the light from the HD went of and the cd did not show any activity any more I had nothing else to do as playing with my keyboard. With Ctrl Alt F3 I got following information: After a lot of prelimaries, Hardware probing finished There seems to be no floppy disk Got info from cmdline Looking for a SuSE Linux CD Checking CD: /dev/hdb Found CD in /dev/hdb Set font lat 1-16.psfu (map none) Setting up localhost ..... done going for automatic install mount: /var/adm/mount/boot/root: we need a loop device mount using /dev/loop0 rmmod usb storage starting/mount/inst_sys/sbin/inst_setup yast With Ctrl Alt F4 I also get some info but due to the fact that the story runs during install and retrying I did not catch the first info but the end is a repeat over and over from following sentences: all preceded by - june 2:21:31:56 (none) kernel: hdb: cdrom_decode_staus : status 0x51{DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hdb:cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Last Failed Sense 0x33 ATAPI reset complete #above sentences are repeated numerous times until it stops with# end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40(hdb),sector 1148036 lost async page write due to I/O error 03:40 I am completely lost as what is causing me these troubles. Above info does not help me much. Sombody can make sense out of it? Why is the install hanging after looking for a yast file? An usb scanner is attached, two 2Meg harddisks, two floppy drives and my PII with 400mHz had no problems with former installs. Is it possible that just the Yast file is on a damaged part of the cd? How can I check this and is there another way to install? I have not enough space on my HD to download the cd. But could CD1 sbe sufficient for a basic start and do I need all the files to copy on my hd or can I sort trough the files to copy the relevant files for a minmum setup?