Until recently I had never had a problem of SuSE 7.2 hanging. Just now ALL the display entities dissapeared, leaving an unframed console pane. Keyboard, mouse - everything else was totally disabled. I was e.g. able to successfully "ping" the system from my networked WinME box, but that was all. Eventually I pushed the h/w reset button and (fortunately) the disk recovered. I have (while generally playing around) had a disk NOT recover this way - and needed to reinstall SuSE, so all this was not without a little trepidation. This was apparently a *rare* occurence, but are there any useful ways to prepare for this kind of thing - allow telnet from my WinME system perhaps? Fwiw, the only (major) changes I have made recently have been to trim the swap file from 256MB to 128MB. (I have 128MB of RAM. Can SuSE effectively use more than 128MB for a swap file and *should* it be bigger?) I do also admit to trimming the /boot partition from 24MB to 16MB (1 cylinder) for NO real good reason. I had e.g. found out that SuSE objects if it's less than 12MB. Could these explain the above - Maybe I should desist from fiddling? :-) Chris