Hi, Finally, I manage to install SuSE8 on this machine by using ftp instead of harddisk. However, this is far from finished article. Each time I need to boot from safe setting, otherwise it will hang at certain point (notably when loading/detecting usb-storage). I haven't experiment with each safe parameter (nodma, apm, or acpi), but judging from others experience, I suspect the problem is the acpi. Another problem is that perl interpreter is unavailable. I've chosen the perl package during installation slection. However, during installation, I got twice a message that "y2xfer.rpm could not be found/accessed". I have search in ARCHIVES.gz, INDEX.gz, or ls-lR.gz (zgrep y2xfer <...>) but no result. The immediate effect is that I can't run sax2. I've tried executing "perl" directly from bash shell, and I got "command not found". I haven't tried to locate or find it yet, as I was in hurry to go back. The last problem is that I could not power off the PC without pressing the button. Note that I've boot using safemode kernel (ide=nodma, apm=off, acpi=off). Any suggestions? Regards, Verdi -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net