Hello, I have a few problems that I need to resolve. Background: I have a p60 system with 49 Meg of ram, 100meg swap. Suse 6.1 with the 2.2.5 kernel. EIDE hard drives, floppy tape and an ATAPI cdrom, all in all a generic system. I'm dual booting between Suse 6.1 and Caldera 1.2. I'm trying to 'migrate' from Caldera to Suse. The system is to be used as for ipmasquarading and general linux box. I am new to Suse, loaded it last night:) I am relatively new to linux but I'm an experienced Unix and PC admin. I've been reading this list for the last week. Now to my problems 1) What's eating up my ram? After boot the free command shows that I have about 44meg of ram being used. I have recompiled the kernel to get rid of things I don't need. SCSI, ramdisks and other various drivers and options that I won't use. This didn't reduce the amount of ram that is being used just after booting up. This is with nothing else running, no X or any other user applications. Is there something I'm missing, am I making a Stupid User Error(tm) or is there something about the new kernel that I don't understand. 2) I too have the 'modem busy' problem. I have an external USR modem on Com1. I know it works. It's what I'm using right now from within Caldera 1.2. But kppp is telling me that the modem is busy. Minicom is ignoring the modem too. I have tried using /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS0 in both apps. I set the modem up with Yast and I have double checked the dev directory. Oh and a cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 2400 tells me that it got the hang up signal and cu exits. 3) lilo doesn't want to configure for a kernel on my second disk. I have put my Caldera on hdb, (Suse is on hda). I can't get Suses' lilo to recognize the kernel on hdb. It tells me that it can't open /vmlinuz. I have a default lilo.conf other than adding in the boot from hdb. The relevant section of the lilo.conf looks like so: image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda1 label = suse_linux image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb1 label = caldera Any and all help is greatly appreciated Richard -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>