I posted the earlier phases of this adventure here about a month ago, and have since "progressed", but always with similar results in the end. It quickly became clear that the DVD drive had failed in the middle of the installation, and I replaced it. Using the Installation DVD, I ran the installation-media verification routine, and found that it was defective (I have checked the iso file's MD5 code before I burned it), so I burned another and verified it successfully. I then installed v11.1 from this valid DVD. Installation and configuration proceeded normally, but instead of rebooting to present me with a finished system, it stalled with a dark screen and unblinking cursor in the upper-left corner. A five minute wait convinced me that it was going nowhere. (Two previous installations with the unverified DVD got further than this, in one case bringing up a finished system which I was able to use for the rest of the evening, but which failed to boot the following morning.) In order to try diagnose the reason for all this, I installed Windows XP, using the entire 20GB HD. This installed faultlessly, and ran perfectly, even after two shutdowns and reboots. I interpret this as meaning that I do not have a hardware problem. At the moment, the only thing I can think of is that the partitioning scheme I chose is inadequate, because that's the only thing that has not been tested. I have partitioned the HD as follows (from the beginning of the disk): Primary /boot 560MB ext3 (GRUB) Logical Swap 560MB Swap Logical / 8GB ext3 Logical /home 10GB ext3 I don't know what else to examine, and would be very grateful for comments and advice. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org