How do you do it? My cds were copyied top to /hda11/suse8.0 As I did with previous version that worked ok using YaST1, I copied all the cds into th esame directory using cp * /hda11/suse8.0 -Rv Every time using the bootdisks the actual error is /dev/hda11: no such device On the menus it shows /hda11 with the correct ext3 file system I seem to remember needing to go into debug and change a few system setting, but don't remember. The ideal method would use the boot cd, but really lost with that. My goal it to update and be able to access the hard drive for additon software installation. It appears this isw not covered under my free installation support , becasue it is not the normal way to install SuSE. thanks in advance, joe