Hi All! This problem was submitted to SuSE support over a month ago and they have not come very far. I posted a message about the problems I was having with Suse support and people suggested to try the list. So, here I am. During the installation of Suse 9.2, when I use the standard installation, Yast seems to freeze, but switching to VC4, I see what appears to be repeated messages scrolling across the screen. Ctrl-S does not appear to stop the output, so I cannot read what it says. If I used "Installation - Safe Settings", Yast seems to stop as soon as it has completed the creation of the filesystem. However, only if I use either ext3fs or reiserfs. If I used ext2fs it installs correctly. During the installation I did not use the default options for the keyboard language, time zone and the partitioning options. The default was to completely delete the partition /dev/hdg1 and install a single root filesystem there. Instead, I told Yast to install root on /dev/hda12. During the installation with the reiserfs I tried to mount /dev/hda9 (a data FS on my working system) in order to store various log files and other info. However, the mount command hung. I tried to run fdisk -l to see what partitions it sees. The fdisk command hung as well. Running ps -ef I could see that there were actually two running mount commands. One looked like this: root 4184 4183 1 13:06 tty1 00:00:01 /bin/mount -t reiserfs /dev/ hda12 /mnt/ I though that maybe my mount command had caused problems, so I rebooted and tried the installation again. It hung as well. Running ps -ef again, I saw the same mount command. It seems that for whatever reason the mount is hanging and thus Yast cannot continue. I can provide the y2log, as well as the output of dmesg and ps, if people are interested. The hardware I have is: Asus A7S333 /PA Sockel A/SIS AMD Athlon XP 2400+; 2000 MHz 512 MB DDR-RAM PC-400 Infineon Elsa Erazor - Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100/200 Maxtor 6Y080L0 80 GB (/dev/hda) Maxtor 6Y120L0 120 GB (/dev/hdb) LG 4160B Double Layer DVD Brenner (/dev/hdc) SAMSUNG SP1604N 160 GB (/dev/hdd) Maxtor 7Y250P0 250 GB (/dev/hde) Maxtor 6Y120L0 120 GB(/dev/hdg) PROMISE TX2  Ultra  U-DMA133 Any help is grealy appreaciated. Regards, Jim Mohr -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups or forums are subject to reposting.