It all sounds good, I'll be upgrading. Now I just wish SuSE still had a live CD. With 9.2, I installed it on a couple of work machines permanently, but an awfull lot of what I do is using standard Linux tools controlled by shell scripts to work with temporarily attached drives. (A simple example is making a dd image file of a clients disk drive, then running md5sum on the original drive and the imagefile. This is the first step in a Computer Forensic examination and I did it a hundred or so times in the last year.) Currently the company has another half dozen machines that have only Windows installed, but when "I" use them I boot the 9.2 LiveCD and just run my scripts from a thumb drive. I also occasionally boot the LiveCD directly on the clients computer. So to use 9.3 on the office I will either have to setup a Linux boot partition or quit using those machines. :( And in client machines, I will not be able to use 9.3 at all. :( PS: I assume that 9.3 has a boot cd with rescue mode, but I need a solution that is designed NOT to modify the standard disks, but instead defaults to read-only use of the system. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century